Volume 21, Número 5 ISSN 2447-2131 João Pessoa, 2021 Artigo FUNCTIONALITY EVALUATION OF SCHISTOSOMOTIC MIELORADICULOPATHY PATIENTS DOI: 10.29327/213319.21.5-4 Páginas 76 a 99 76 FUNCTIONALITY EVALUATION OF SCHISTOSOMOTIC MIELORADICULOPATHY PATIENTS AVALIAÇÃO DA FUNCIONALIDADE DE PACIENTES COM MIELORADICULOPATIA ESQUISTOSSOMÓTICA Adriana de Oliveira Guimarães 1 Vitor Santana Nascimento 2 Drielly Catarinny dos Santos Meneses 3 José Nolasco de Carvalho Neto 4 Francisco Prado Reis 5, Edna Aragão Farias Cândido 6 ABSTRACT Introduction: Schistosomiasis is a serious public health problem in Brazil with about 16 million infected individuals. Study aim was to evaluate individuals biochemical and functional conditions with neurological impairment in Sergipe-Brazil. Material and methods: This is a prospective and cross-sectional study from 2015 to 2017. Casuistry totaled 72% (n = 29) of the 40 positive cases population of 106 individuals evaluated biochemically. Variables were immunocitological profile; International Functioning, Disability and Health Classification (ICF); American Spinal Cord Injury Association; Functional Individual Measure per individual (FIM TM Instrument) and Functional Individual Measure per motor tasks (enviro FIM-motor tasks TM ); Ashworth Scale; Rest metabolic expenditure per weight kilogramme (METs- 1 ) of the Physical Activity Scale for Individuals with Physical Disabilities (PASIPD). 1 Biomedical, doctoral student of the Postgraduate Program in Health and Environment of Tiradentes University / Sergipe / Brazil; 2 Physiothery Student of Tiradentes University / Sergipe / Brazil; 3 Student of the Postgraduate Program in Health and Environment, Tiradentes University / Sergipe / Brazil; 4 Student of the Medicine / University Federal of the Sergipe / Brazil; 5 Neurologist, Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Health and Environment, University Tiradentes / Sergipe / Brazil; 6 Physiotherapist, Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Health and Environment, Tiradentes University / Sergipe / Brazil;