Table 3.

Functional Independence Measure scores at admission and discharge for an elderly patient who received ninjin'yoeito, a Japanese herbal medicine, during the rehabilitation phase after hip fracture surgery.

FIM item	At admission	At discharge	Maximum	Improvement
Self-care	18	38	42	20
Sphincter control	2	14	14	12
Transfer	9	18	21	9
Locomotion	2	10	14	8
FIM-M total	31	80	91	49
Communication	9	13	14	4
Social cognition	9	12	21	3
FIM-C total	18	25	35	7
Total	49	105	126	56

FIM, functional independence measure; FIM-M, FIM motor subscores; FIM-C, FIM cognitive subscores.