Results of Clinicians Using a Therapeutic Robotic System in an Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation Unit

Table 4 Mean improvement of CMSA indices under conventional and robot-assisted therapy

	Arm	Hand	Pain	ln(CAHAI-7)	Age
Conventional therapy (n = 11)
Admission	2.36	2.82	5.27	2.27	70.40
Discharge	2.91	3.27	5.55	2.60
Mean change	0.55	0.45	0.27	0.29¹
St. error change	0.28	0.23	0.26	0.10	3.76
P-Value	0.0690	0.0690	0.3000	0.0100
Robot-assisted therapy (n = 8)
Admission	2.00	2.63	5.25	2.53	75.80
Discharge	3.50	3.88	5.75	2.96
Mean change	1.50	1.25	0.50	0.48¹
St. error change	0.33	0.27	0.30	0.12	4.41
P-value	0.0003	0.0003	0.1130	0.0010
Difference in treatments	0.95	0.80	0.23	0.20¹	5.39
Standard error Difference	0.43	0.36	0.39	0.15	5.79
P-value	0.0410	0.0410	0.5710	0.2240	0.3650

¹ For ln(CAHAI-7), admission and discharge are the means of the natural log values. However, the mean change and difference in treatments (and their standard errors) are adjusted for age differences of subjects.

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