Cortical Reorganization Induced by Body Weight–Supported Treadmill Training in Patients With Hemiparesis of Different Stroke Durations Yea-Ru Yang, PhD, PT, I.-Hsuan Chen, BS, PT, Kwong-Kum Liao, MD, Chia-Chi Huang, MS, PT, Ray-Yau Wang, PhD, PT Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Volume 91, Issue 4, Pages 513-518 (April 2010) DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2009.11.021 Copyright © 2010 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Flow diagram of the study. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2010 91, 513-518DOI: (10.1016/j.apmr.2009.11.021) Copyright © 2010 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Motor threshold (A) and map size (B) in subjects with short or long poststroke duration. *P<.05 denotes a significant within-group difference between pre- and postintervention by paired t test. For subjects in the short duration experimental group, there was a significant decrease in the motor threshold and a significant increase in the map size after BWSTT. For subjects in the long duration experimental group, there was a significant increase in the map size after BWSTT. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2010 91, 513-518DOI: (10.1016/j.apmr.2009.11.021) Copyright © 2010 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Example of motor map area before and after BWSTT in 2 representative subjects. The grid size is 1cm and (0,0) is Cz in the 10-20 electroencephalogram system. Increased map size was observed in subjects assigned to the BWSTT group regardless of short (top) or long (bottom) duration group. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2010 91, 513-518DOI: (10.1016/j.apmr.2009.11.021) Copyright © 2010 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Terms and Conditions
Fig 4 FMA in subjects with short or long poststroke duration. *P<.05 denoted a significant within-group difference between pre- and postintervention by paired t test. For subjects in the short and long duration experimental groups, there was a significant improvement in FMA after BWSTT. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2010 91, 513-518DOI: (10.1016/j.apmr.2009.11.021) Copyright © 2010 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Terms and Conditions