1 Before you use it
What it is
The ten-second PROM. "On a scale of 0 to 100, where 100 is completely normal, how would you rate your shoulder right now?"
Originally developed for the knee and now used across regions. One question, no form, no scoring.
When to reach for it
When a full PROM won't happen. A busy list, a brief review, a phone follow-up, a patient who won't complete a questionnaire.
It is also the honest choice for the regions with no good instrument — pair it with PSFS on the thoracic pages.
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2 Giving it
Scoring
A single percentage, 0 to 100. Record the region and the date.
What it doesn’t measure
Anything about which activities are limited, or why. It compresses a whole region into one number, which is its strength and its entire weakness.
Pair it with PSFS so you know what the number is made of.
Repeat it
3 Reading the score
Interpreting it
Interpret as a trend within the patient.
It correlates reasonably with longer region-specific scores — which is the argument for using it when the alternative is measuring nothing at all.
Is the change real?
On placement
Adhesive capsulitis, week 6. 'How would you rate your shoulder today as a percentage of normal?' — 40% at intake, 55% today.
Read it as 15 points up, on the verified 15% MCID (measured in shoulder complaints). It is a single question, so it is a trend within the patient, not a score to compare across people.
Do record the region and the date, keep asking it, and pair it with a region-specific measure when the trend and the patient's story disagree.
Student trap. Using it as the only measure. It's the floor, not the plan — one number with no activities attached tells you nothing about what to treat.
Official source: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. We don't host the form.
This is a learning tool. It does not diagnose patients and does not replace your clinical educator.
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