Assessment-driven selection and adaptation of exercise difficulty in robot-assisted therapy: a pilot study with a hand rehabilitation robot

Table 1 Patient demographics

Patient	Age [years]	Gender	Handed -ness	Impaired hand	Post lesion [weeks]	Initial FMA-UE¹	Initial FMA¹subscore(hand/ wrist)	Neurological disorder
P1	85	F	R	L	2	57	20	Ischemic stroke in the right corona radiata and frontal centrum semiovale
P2	67	M	R	L	2	55	20	Ischemic stroke in right thalamus
P3	80	M	R	L	5	59	19	Ischemic stroke in right ponto-cerebellar region
P4	70	M	R	R	6	52	16	Ischemic stroke in left parietal lobe
P5	53	M	R	L	4	52	17	Ischemic stroke in right pre and post-central gyrus and right parietal lobe
P6	82	M	R	L	3	61	20	Ischemic stroke in cortico-subcortical temporal-parietal lobe
Mean	72.8	-	-	-	3.7	56.0	18.7	-
(Std)	(12.0)	-	-	-	(1.5)	(3.7)	(1.8)	-

¹Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) [31]. FMA scores for the upper extremity (maximum score = 66) and hand/wrist (maximum score = 24) subsections are reported (lower scores indicate greater impairment).

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