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Table 2 Clinical measures of motor capacity, patient-reported measures of upper-limb usage and independence, and sensor-based measures of motor performance in daily life. Data are reported as the means ± standard deviation (minimum–maximum)

From: Clinical value of assessing motor performance in postacute stroke patients

Clinical measures of capacity

 National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS)

4.0 ± 2.6 (0–10)

 Action Research Arm Test (ARAT)

31.4 ± 24.0 (0–57)

 Fugl-Meyer Assessment (impaired side)

40.3 ± 22.8 (9–66)

 Timed Up and Go Test (TUG) 7 m (sec)

18.4 ± 8.2 (7.5–33.3)

 10-Meter Walk Test (m/s)

1.1 ± 0.5 (0.5–1.9)

 Berg Balance Scale (BBS)

50.9 ± 3.8 (44–56)

Patient report

 Motor Activity Log-14 (MAL-14, mean amount of use [AOU])

2.0 ± 1.5 (0.4–4.9)

 Modified Ranking Scale (MRS)

2.2 ± 0.8 (1–3)

 Barthel Index (BI)

97.3 ± 5.3 (85–100)

Sensor based measures of performance in daily life

 Time spent walking (%)

12 ± 5.3 (2.9–20.2)

 Time spent standing (%)

19 ± 8.5 (8.7–33.2)

 Time spent sitting (%)

55 ± 13.5 (29.3–87.8)

 Time spent lying (%)

14 ± 15.6 (0.0–53.9)

 Sedentary time (sitting or lying, %)

69

 Steps/hour (of recording time)

579 ± 243 (226–1066)

 Steps/walking episode

29 ± 13 (14–62)

 Longest walking episodes (in steps)

410 ± 277 (62–1148)

 Arm duration ratio (impaired/unimpaired) during sitting (%)

74 ± 20 (52–124)

 Impaired arm duration (in sec) during sitting normalized per hour (sec/hour)

866 ± 341 (326–1570)