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Table 2 Intervention-related change in the clinical scores

From: Testing spasticity mechanisms in chronic stroke before and after intervention with contralesional motor cortex 1 Hz rTMS and physiotherapy

Clinical outcome

N

Mean ± SD Pre

Mean ± SD Post

F

p

FMA-UE/66

54

25.9 ± 16.9

29.9 ± 18.4

36.3

< 0.001

WMFT-time (s)

30

878.5 ± 473

721 ± 441

9.8

0.004

WMFT-function/75

30

34.9 ± 18.5

40.6 ± 19.3

12.2

0.002

WMFT-grip strength (kg)

30

10.7 ± 7.2

11.8 ± 7.0

0.09

0.77

MAS wrist extension (0–4)

54

1.47 ± 1.1

1.25 ± 1.0

10

0.003

MAS arm total/70

53

12.1 ± 7.3

10.4 ± 6.8

10.3

0.002

Visual analogue scale (%)

52

45.1 ± 26.1

44.3 ± 28.9

0.00

0.99

Motor activity log (%)

50

12.1 ± 16.2

17.0 ± 22.2

8.6

0.005

Disability rating scale/24

53

12.3 ± 4.8

12.2 ± 5.6

0.035

0.851

  1. N: number of subjects; FMA-UE: Fugl Meyer Assessment-Upper extremity; WMFT: Wolf Motor Function test; MAS: modified Ashworth scale. Significant p-values after correction using False Discovery Rate (FDR) Benjamini–Hochberg are indicated in bold