RESUMO
In the area of health there are scales that allow collecting and analyzing conditions objectively. Its validation process includes translation from another language, semantic adaptation, and its application to measure its validity and reliability in an environment other than the original one. The objective of this review was to identify the instruments validated in Hispanics America in the literature and to know the psychometric properties in the field of neurorehabilitation. An exploratory review was carried out in the PubMed, PeDro, Scholar, Science Direct and LILACS databases, using combinations with «evaluation¼, «physical therapy¼, «rehabilitation¼, «Neurology¼. Of the 18,355 records retrieved, 105 received a full title and abstract reading; where finally 25 were included in the qualitative synthesis and critically appreciated. It is concluded that the scales presented here have good psychometric characteristics that allow their adoption in clinical and therapeutic processes.