DASH
disability
The DASH questionnaire assesses functional measures that have been asked with 30 different questions regarding the disabilities of the hand, arm and shoulder and answers are recorded as no difficulty to mild, moderate, severe and unabling levels. Each question have lowest score of 1 which means there is no difficulty in performing certain task and highest score of 5 indicating that person is unable to perform task in question. At least 27 questions must be answered to complete assessment. Scoring is reported between 0 and 100, with indicating higher disability if scores are high. DASH is reported to be having high validity and reliability in functional assessment scales and is used worldwide in many studies [