Does Motor Training of the Nonparetic Side Influences Balance and Function in Chronic Stroke? A Pilot RCT

Table 2

Pre- and Postintervention change in outcome measures between the experimental group and control group.

Outcome measure	Pre			Post
	Experimental Group ()	Control group ()	Test Statistics	Experimental Group ()	Control group ()	95% CI (Difference between the groups postintervention)		value
BBS (max. score 56) (mean ± SD)	46.90 ± 6.84	43.53 ± 8.67	:	52.55 ± 3.07	46.05 ± 8.35	0.631–9.24	5.39	0.026^*
FRT (in inches) (mean ± SD)	8.02 ± 2.53	7.84 ± 3.13	:	9.53 ± 2.14	8.05 ± 3.14	0.932–2.58	0.908	0.347
BI; (mean ± SD)	79.00 ± 11.98	76.58 ± 13.75	:	91.75 ± 6.74	78.74 ± 15.50	9.79–5.11	4.14	0.049^*

BBS: Berg Balance Scale, FRT: Functional Reach Test, BI: Barthel Index, SD: standard deviation, CI: confidence interval, : test value for repeated-measures 2-way ANOVA, ^*significant.