Predicting Clinically Significant Improvement After Robot-Assisted Upper Limb Rehabilitation in Subacute and Chronic Stroke.

ABSTRACT: Prior studies examining predictors of favorable clinical outcomes after upper limb robot-assisted therapy (RT) have many shortcomings. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify meaningful predictors and a prediction model for clinically significant motor improvement in upper limb impairment after RT for each stroke phase. This retrospective, single-center study enrolled patients with stroke who received RT using InMotion2 along with conventional therapy (CT) from January 2015 to September 2019. Demographic characteristics, clinical measures, and robotic kinematic measures were evaluated. The primary outcome measure was the Fugl-Meyer Assessment-Upper Extremity (FMA-UE) and we classified patients with improvement more than the minimal clinically important difference as responders for

SUBMITTER: Lee JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8281036 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature