Process / pipelineMotor recovery assessment

Fugl-Meyer Assessment

The Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) is a comprehensive, clinician-administered scale measuring sensorimotor recovery and motor impairment in stroke patients. Developed by Fugl-Meyer and colleagues in 1975, FMA has become the gold standard outcome measure in stroke rehabilitation research and clinical practice for quantifying motor recovery in the upper extremity, lower extremity, balance, and sensation.

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  1. Fugl-Meyer, A. R., Jääskö, L., Leyman, I., Olsson, S., & Steglind, S. (1975). The post-stroke hemiplegic patient: a method for evaluation of physical performance. Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 7(2), 13–31. link
  2. Gladstone, D. J., Danells, C. J., & Black, S. E. (2002). The Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Motor Recovery after Stroke: a critical review of its measurement properties. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 16(3), 232–240. DOI: 10.1177/154596802401105171

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ScholarGateFugl-Meyer Assessment (Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Sensorimotor Recovery). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/rehabilitation/fugl-meyer-assessment