Vision does not always help stroke survivors compensate for impaired limb position sense

Table 5 Relationships between robotic measures of position sense vision and clinical measures of function and impairment in stroke survivors who were Impaired with occluded vision.

Clinical Measure	Improvement			Occluded Vision			Normal Vision
Clinical Measure	Var (n = 116)	C/E (n = 91)	Shift (n = 52)	Var (n = 116)	C/E (n = 91)	Shift (n = 52)	Var (n = 116)	C/E (n = 91)	Shift (n = 52)
FIM	−0.05 *	−0.04 *	−0.11 *	−0.37 ‡	−0.34 †	−0.20 *	−0.36 ‡	−0.18 *	−0.07 *
BIT	−0.16 *	−0.32 ‡	−0.19 *	−0.46 §	−0.32 †	−0.07 *	−0.63 §	−0.45 ‡	−0.34 †
PPB more affected	−0.20 *	−0.17 *	−0.08 *	−0.01 *	−0.25 †	−0.05 *	−0.17 *	−0.28 †	−0.03 *
PPB less affected	−0.02 *	−0.02 *	−0.14 *	−0.33 ‡	−0.37 ‡	−0.21 *	−0.30 ‡	−0.14 *	−0.02 *
MoCA	−0.09 *	−0.29 †	−0.21 *	−0.16 *	−0.18 *	−0.04 *	−0.29 †	−0.33 †	−0.27 *

Spearman correlations between clinical scores (FIM, BIT, PPB, MoCA and improvements/measures of position sense. Symbols indicate significance of one-tailed tests for improvements (positive relationships) and measures (negative relationships): * p < 0.05, † p < 0.01, ‡ p< 0 .001, § p < 10^-6

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