Recovery and Prediction of Bimanual Hand Use After Stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine similarities and differences in key predictors of recovery of bimanual hand use and unimanual motor impairment after stroke.

Method

In this prospective longitudinal study, 89 patients with first-ever stroke with arm paresis were assessed at 3 weeks and 3 and 6 months after stroke onset. Bimanual activity performance was assessed with the Adult Assisting Hand Assessment Stroke (Ad-AHA), and unimanual motor impairment was assessed with the Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA). Candidate predictors included shoulder abduction and finger extension measured by the corresponding FMA items (FMA-SAFE; range 0-4) and sensory and cognitive impairment. MRI was used to measure weighted corticospinal tract lesion load (wCST-LL) and resting-state interhemispheric functional

SUBMITTER: Plantin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8377875 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature