Neural Plasticity / 2015 / Article / Tab 1 / Clinical Study
Increase in Short-Interval Intracortical Facilitation of the Motor Cortex after Low-Frequency Repetitive Magnetic Stimulation of the Unaffected Hemisphere in the Subacute Phase after Stroke Table 1 Characteristics of the patients.
Characteristics Active ( ) Sham ( ) valueAge (mean ± standard deviation) 57.1 ± 11.8 51.1 ± 17.7 0.4381 Gender (men/women) 5/4 4/5 1.02 Handedness (oldfield inventory) (%) 82.3 (42.9–100) 62.5 (0–100) 0.3453 Days after stroke 27 ± 3.6 30.1 ± 10 0.5821 Affected hemisphere (right/left) 5/4 3/6 0.6372 Infarct location (corticosubcortical/subcortical) 4/5 6/3 0.6372 NIH Stroke Scale (median, interval) 5.3 (4–8) 5.9 (1–11) 0.9643 Modified Rankin Scale 3 (2–5) 3 (0–4) 0.6393 Baseline rMT (%) 55.5 ± 3.8 58.6 ± 5.5 0.8593 Baseline SICI (%) 82.2 ± 20.3 50.5 ± 11.3 0.1453 Baseline ICF (%) 140.3 ± 15.5 202.3 ± 50.7 0.4023 Baseline PEMTS 739.1 ± 355.0 804.1 ± 639.5 0.9653
N = number; rMT = resting motor threshold; SICI = short-interval intracortical inhibition; ICF = short-interval intracortical facilitation; 1 Unpaired -test. 2 Fisher’s exact test. 3 Mann-Whitney test.