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. 2023 Dec 13;13(12):1713. doi: 10.3390/brainsci13121713

Table 2.

Methodological characteristics of the included studies.

Participants and Time of Inclusion Task Timepoints Methods Dependent Variables
Caty et al. (2009) [30] n = 10, >6-month post-stroke 2 min treadmill walk 3 measures: test repeated 1 day and 1 month after baseline Optical motion capture and oxygen consumption measures Lower limb kinematic variables
Lofrumento et al. (2021) [31] n = 6, <1-month post-stroke; 3 min treadmill walk and 6 steps overground Tests before and after 4 weeks of conventional therapy Optical motion capture with UCM analysis method a Variance of UCM and the orthogonal subspace of the ankle joint trajectories
n = 4, >6-month post-stroke
Papi et al. (2015) [32] n = 1, 2 months post-stroke; 6 repeats of 6 meters of overground walking 3 measures: test repeated 3 and 6 months after baseline Optical motion capture with UCM analysis method a Variance of UCM and the orthogonal subspace of lower limb sagittal joint kinematics
n = 6, healthy controls
Shin et al. (2020) [33] n = 9, <1-month post-stroke; Measures during conventional therapy 5 to 12 sessions over the course of rehabilitation Inertial motion capture to extract amount of activity information Amount of motion (total amount of joint displacements measured from inertial motion capture)
Subgroup of n = 6 was longitudinally monitored
Roby-Brami et al. (2003) [34] n = 6, single measure, 48–162 days post-stroke; Seated reaching movements 1 to 3 measures at monthly timepoints during regular therapy Electromagnetic motion tracking Peak velocity of the hand and movement duration, amount of acromion displacement, and joint angular variations
n = 9, repeated measures, 24–89 days post stroke;
n = 7 healthy controls

a UCM: uncontrolled manifold [35,36].