1. Figure 1 Proportional motor recovery in the upper limb
Figure 1 | Proportional motor recovery in the upper limb. a | Predicted change in upper-limb impairment plotted against observed change at 3 months poststroke14. By 3 months, patients are predicted to regain ∼70% of their initial deficit present at 72 h post stroke. Patients in the blue area have proportional recovery as predicted. Patients in the red area recover less well than predicted. Patients above dotted line all have initially severe levels of impairment, and roughly equal numbers of patients have good (proportional) or poor recovery. b | Illustration of different recovery curves of patients with initially severe upper limb impairment — shown in dashed boxes in part a — who have recovery as predicted (blue) or poor recovery (red). The recovery curves of these groups of patients suggests that the factors important for recovery are different from those responsible for initial severity.
Ward, N. S. (2017) Restoring brain function after stroke — bridging the gap between animals and humans
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