Enhanced Upper Extremity Functions with a Single Session of Action-Observation-Execution and Accelerated Skill Acquisition Program in Subacute Stroke

Table 1

Participants’ characteristics and clinical data at the time of recruitment.

Participants	Age (Years)	Gender	Type of stroke	Side of lesion	Lesion location	Days after stroke	FMA score		MMSE score
							UE^a	Hand^b
Control group
1	40	Female	I	Left	Corona radiata	80	42	2	25
2	60	Male	I	Left	Thalamus	138	52	3	29
3	68	Female	H	Left	Thalamus	64	48	3	27
4	65	Female	I	Right	Subcortical	79	50	4	26
5	34	Male	I	Right	Basal ganglia	37	50	3	28
6	72	Female	I	Right	Thalamus	32	44	2	24
Mean (SD)	56.5 (15.72)					71.7 (38.4)	47.67 (3.89)	2.83 (0.75)	26.5 (1.87)
Frequency		2 Male/4 Female	5 I/1 H	3 Left/3 Right
Experimental group
7	63	Female	H	Left	Thalamus and parietal lobe	45	46	3	24
8	62	Male	I	Right	Cortical and sub-cortical	122	52	3	28
9	39	Male	H	Right	Basal ganglia	159	38	2	25
1	69	Male	I	Right	Thalamus	53	48	4	27
11	55	Male	H	Left	Thalamus	101	49	3	28
12	43	Male	I	Left	Caudate and corona radiata	39	48	4	29
Mean (SD)	55.17 (11.91)					86.5 (48.6)	46.83 (4.75)	3.17 (0.75)	26.83 (1.94)
Frequency		5 Male/1Female	3 I/3 H	3 Left/3 Right

FMA: Fugl Meyer assessment, MMSE: mini-mental state examination (out of 30), UE^a: motor and coordination score of upper extremity (out of 66), Hand^b: flexion/extension score of FMA-hand item (out of 4), SD: standard deviation, I: infarction, H: hemorrhage.