Quantification of the Upper Extremity Motor Functions of Stroke Patients Using a Smart Nine-Hole Peg Tester

Table 2

Results for hospitalized stroke patients. This shows, in seconds, total execution times for the first and last complete test sessions.

	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10	S11	S12
Days between first and last complete test sessions	15	8	16	14	23	14	25	22	15	14	20	32
Affected hand, total execution time in s
Average of TRTs, first complete test session	29.07	31.86	47.29	63.68	27.85	70.49	66.32	44.33	153.13	79.61	90.3	72.67
Average of TRTs, last complete test session	22.46	29.60	32.55	35.63	21.12	49.19	37.08	34.78	63.21	32.5	62.0	36.66
GUT1, first test session	30.85	32.88	46.03	70.46	30.91	56.4	67.39	43.53	—	67.01	—	69.27
GUT1, last test session	23.07	26.75	33.9	37.19	30.08	43.44	31.75	34.06	61.64	36.75	—	39.08
GUT4, first test session	46.56	35.87	48.04	74.85	34.59	57.41	70.1	47.46	—	66.97	—	68.4
GUT4, last test session	31.77	32.42	36.46	46.72	27.11	45.98	40.13	36.67	59.74	36.99	—	46.09
GUT5, first test session	32.36	35.61	52.24	86.27	37.42	62.16	101.51	53.1	—	69.15	—	67.01
GUT5, last test session	29.89	31.72	44.52	38.78	27.21	45.9	48.36	38.31	61.51	36.98	—	56.84
Nonaffected hand, total execution time in s
Average of TRTs, first complete test session	25.33	31.6	24.6	25.71	26.29	23.9	26.27	29.56	40.69	27.24	28.5	45.88
Average of TRTs, last complete test session	23.72	27.44	24.91	20.98	21	21.76	25.57	26.7	31.4	22.53	24.5	28.16
GUT1, first test session	25.29	31.26	25.99	35.01	32.03	26.13	26.13	32.35	46.86	25.53	—	43.81
GUT1, last test session	25.38	26.25	26.63	24.19	26.68	23.3	26.2	28.72	34.65	23.34	—	33.09
GUT4, first test session	33.13	39.99	38.78	36.84	37.26	28.09	26.36	42.83	47.94	26.03	—	49.45
GUT4, last test session	27.44	—	29.29	25.33	30.8	26.67	30.11	32.46	41.54	24.22	—	36.44
GUT5, first test session	32.78	32.07	36.44	37.3	32.8	28.09	29.68	34.59	47.02	26.15	—	52.57
GUT5, last test session	27.34	27.87	33.55	27.77	26.75	27.45	28.86	42.32	41.22	24.42	—	37.24
Average daily improvement, in percent
TRT, affected hand	1.71	0.92	2.31	4.06	1.20	2.54	2.30	1.10	5.73	6.20	1.86	2.12
GUT1, affected hand	1.92	2.55	1.89	4.46	0.12	1.85	2.97	1.11	n.a.	4.20	n.a.	1.77
GUT4, affected hand	2.52	1.26	1.71	3.31	1.05	1.57	2.21	1.17	n.a.	4.15	n.a.	1.23
GUT5, affected hand	0.53	1.44	0.99	5.55	1.38	2.14	2.92	1.47	n.a.	4.37	n.a.	0.51
TRT, nonaffected hand	0.44	1.75	−0.08	1.44	0.97	0.67	0.11	0.46	1.71	1.35	0.74	1.51
GUT1, nonaffected hand	−0.02	2.16	−0.15	2.61	0.79	0.82	−0.01	0.54	1.99	0.64	n.a.	0.87
GUT4, nonaffected hand	1.25	n.a.	1.74	2.64	0.82	0.37	−0.53	1.25	0.95	0.51	n.a.	0.95
GUT5, nonaffected hand	1.20	1.74	0.52	2.09	0.88	0.16	0.11	−0.92	0.87	0.49	n.a.	1.07