Motor-imagery ability and function of hemiplegic upper limb in stroke patients

Autor: Tomoya Ishigaki, Yuki Nishi, Shu Morioka, Tsukasa Sakauchi, Satoshi Nobusako, Rintaro Ishibashi, Yusaku Takamura, Michihiro Osumi
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
ISSN: 2328-9503
Popis: Objectives We quantitatively examined the motor‐imagery ability in stroke patients using a bimanual circle‐line coordination task (BCT) and clarified the relationship between motor‐imagery ability and motor function of hemiplegic upper limbs and the level of use of paralyzed limbs. Methods We enrolled 31 stroke patients. Tasks included unimanual‐line (U‐L)—drawing straight lines on the nonparalyzed side; bimanual circle‐line (B‐CL)—drawing straight lines with the nonparalyzed limb while drawing circles with the paralyzed limb; and imagery circle‐line (I‐CL)—drawing straight lines on the nonparalyzed side during imagery drawing on the paralyzed side, using a tablet personal computer. We calculated the ovalization index (OI) and motor‐imagery ability (image OI). We used the Fugl–Meyer motor assessment (FMA), amount of use (AOU), and quality of motion (QOM) of the motor activity log (MAL) as the three variables for cluster analysis and performed mediation analysis. Results Clusters 1 (FMA
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