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Record information - level of lesion assessment

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Table of Contents

  • Recent updates …4
  • Before you start …5
  • Understand and record a level of lesion assessment …6
  • Next steps …7

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This article provides guidance for a local area coordinator, early childhood coordinator and all NDIA staff (planner, payment officer, internal review officer, complaints officer, participant service officer, access officer, quality officer, technical advisor, SDA officer, NCC officer, provider support) to:

  • understand a level of lesion assessment
  • record information about level of lesion in PACE.

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Recent updates

July 2023

Update to system steps and language to align with PACE and knowledge consistency

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2 Before you start

You have:

  • read Our Guidelines – applying to the NDIS
  • read the article Understand functional capacity assessments
  • read the article Create a functional capacity assessment case.

3 Understand and record a level of lesion assessment

A level of lesion assessment helps identify the injured vertebrae related to a spinal injury. This usually follows a traumatic injury from situations such as:

  • diving accident
  • horse riding accident
  • car, motorbike, or other vehicle accident.

An allied health professional completes the assessment. You will enter the assessment score in PACE.

Level of lesion sections

The level of lesion assessment groups vertebrae into sections. The higher the injury on the spinal cord, the more dysfunction can occur for the person. These sections are:

  • high cervical nerves (C1 – C4)
  • low cervical nerves (C5 – C8)
  • thoracic nerves (T1 – T12)
  • lumbar nerves (L1 – L5)
  • sacral nerves (S1 – S5).

Record level of lesion information

To enter a level of lesion assessment, at the Select Tools step in the Functional Capacity Assessment:

  1. Select No to Carry out a new assessment.
  2. Select Yes to Manually enter scores.
  3. Select Level of Lesion.
  4. Select Next.
  5. Enter Assessment completion date.
  6. Select Score or rating.
  7. Select Next.
  8. Check the Confirmation details.
  9. Select Done.

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Next steps

There are no further steps.

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