Clinical Study
Functional Brain Correlates of Upper Limb Spasticity and Its Mitigation following Rehabilitation in Chronic Stroke Survivors
Table 1
Subject characteristics.
| | | Stroke subjects
n = 23 |
| | Age in years, mean (std. dev.) | 56.3 (12.8) | | Female (%) | 41 | | Stroke hemisphere (% left) | 55% | | Stroke type (% ischemic) | 88.6% | | Years since stroke | 1.8 (1.1) | | Lesion location n (%) | | | BG/IC | 7 (30%) | | Pons | 2 (8.6%) | | Frontal lobe | 1 (2.3%) | | Frontal/parietal lobes | 3 (13%) | | Frontal lobe/BG/IC | 3 (13%) | | Frontal/parietal lobes/BG/IC | 5 (21.7%) | | Frontal/parietal/temporal lobes/BG/IC | 2 (8.6%) | | Medical history | | | DM | 17.4% | | HTN | 52.2% | | Heart disease | 21.7% | | Smoking | 56.5% |
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