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Chest Harness Treatment Report

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Reasons used

4 patients in the community are using or have used Chest Harness.

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 2 50%
disease-related symptoms 1 25%
inability to support upper body 1 25%

Other equipment patients are using for Other include Walking Stick/Cane, MRI, and Levothyroxine.

Duration

How long current patients have been using Chest Harness or how long patients were using Chest Harness before stopping.

How Long Current Patients Have Been Using Chest Harness

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Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 1 patient evaluation. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major 100% 1

inability to support upper body

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 0% 0
None 100% 1

Top reported side-effects include:

Summary results are based on 1 individual response. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (1 of 1)

  • strapples
    Sex: M
    Mouth/throat: severe
    Arms: moderate
    Chest: moderate
    Legs: severe
  • strapples
  • by strapples
    Aug 16, 2009
  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsNone
  • inability to support upper body

See all evaluation results for Chest Harness

Report created on November 08, 2009.