Facilitation of corticospinal excitability by virtual reality exercise following anodal transcranial direct current stimulation in healthy volunteers and subacute stroke subjects

Table 3 Comparison of performance metrics between conditions

		Active wrist exercise	VR wrist exercise	VR wrist exercise following tDCS	P
Average task speed (°/s)	Healthy	32.9 ± 10.8	24.9 ± 3.6	31.9 ± 15.2	0.10
Average task speed (°/s)	Stroke	N.A.	17.3 ± 5.0	20.1 ± 10.8	0.26
Average distance (°)	Healthy	2010.7 ± 650.7	1499.9 ± 212.9	1920.7 ± 914.6	0.09
	Stroke	N.A.	1057.5 ± 279.6	1238.3 ± 628.9	0.23

P values from ANOVA and t-test. Values are means ± SD. VR, virtual reality, tDCS, transcranial direct current stimulation; NA, not available.

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