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Table 3 Spearman’s/Pearson’s correlation coefficient between baseline value (T0) and BoNT-A injection effect (T1–T0) (N = 8/9)

From: Examining the role of intrinsic and reflexive contributions to ankle joint hyper-resistance treated with botulinum toxin-A

Outcome Measure

\(\mathbf {\rho }\)/\(\textbf{r}\)

MAS

− 0.51

Fast SPAT \(W_{fast}\)

− 0.53

Slow SPAT \(W_{slow}\)

− 0.77

Intr. Stiffness K

− 0.81

Tardieu \(TS_Q\)

− 0.38

Diff. SPAT \({\Delta }W\)

− 0.34

Refl. Gain G

− 0.57

  1. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient \(\rho\) was used for all correlations involving the ordinal clinical measures, whereas Pearson’s correlation coefficient r was used otherwise