Evaluation of Contralateral Limb Cross Education and High-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Functional Indices of the Affected Upper Limb in Subacute Phase of Stroke

Table 3

Comparison of clinical measurements among the four different groups using the Kruskal-Wallis test.

	Mean rank	Chi-square	value
FMA-UE (score)		15.348	0.002
Group A	10.90
Group B	17.55
Group C	30.60
Group D	22.95
BBT		15.761	0.001
Group A	8.50
Group B	21.00
Group C	27.35
Group D	25.15
Grip strength (kg)		8.213	0.042
Group A	13.10
Group B	26.20
Group C	24.75
Group D	17.95
Pinch strength (kg)		1.172	0.760
Group A	17.10
Group B	22.10
Group C	21.10
Group D	21.70

Abbreviations: FMA-UE: Fugl-Meyer assessment for upper extremities; BBT: box and block test. Values demonstrate difference values of mean rank. Study groups were as follows: (A) physiotherapy, (B) HF-rTMS+physiotherapy, (C) cross education+physiotherapy, and (D) HF-rTMS+cross education+physiotherapy.