Table 2.
Upper limb clinical and motor outcomes over time.
| Armeo® Spring | First cycle (6 months after stroke) | Second cycle (1 year after stroke) | ||
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| a. Vertical capture | 75% (1.11 115 s) –100% (1.27 101 s) | 85% (1.28 78 s) –100% (1.14 43 s) | ||
| b. Horizontal capture | 44% (1.16 113 s) –94% (1.25 76 s) | 72% (1.17 84 s) –100% (1.45 57 s) | ||
| c. Reaction time | 5% (60 s) –100% (216 s) | 100% (248 s) –100% (172 s) | ||
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| Motricity Index (MI) for the upper limb | ||||
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| MI scores | First hospitalization | Second hospitalization | ||
| Pretreatment | Posttreatment | Pretreatment | Posttreatment | |
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| MI pinch | 11 | 19 | 22 | 26 |
| MI elbow | 14 | 14 | 25 | 25 |
| MI shoulder | 14 | 14 | 19 | 25 |
| MI total | 40 | 48 | 67 | 77 |
Note: a, b, c are measures provided by the Armeo® Spring device [43] concerning movements on the vertical plan (a), horizontal plan (b), and patient's reaction time (c). The measures are displayed in terms of achieved tasks percentage (%) and time (s = seconds); M: months pre and postrehabilitation.