Table 4.
Correlations between ERD and the characteristics and impairments of ALS patients
| |
|
Lt hand imagery |
Rt hand imagery |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ERD at C3 | ERD at C4 | ERD at C3 | ERD at C4 | ||
| Age |
ρ |
0.28 |
0.25 |
0.26 |
0.40 |
| |
p value |
0.51 |
0.55 |
0.53 |
0.33 |
| Disease duration |
ρ |
0.94 |
0.93 |
0.80 |
0.55 |
| |
p value |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.02 |
0.16 |
| Lt U/E MMT |
ρ |
0.43 |
0.54 |
0.66 |
0.18 |
| |
p value |
0.29 |
0.17 |
0.07 |
0.67 |
| Rt U/E MMT |
ρ |
0.05 |
0.11 |
0.47 |
0.10 |
| |
p value |
0.91 |
0.79 |
0.24 |
0.82 |
| Bulbar scale |
ρ |
-0.74 |
-0.83 |
-0.99 |
-0.71 |
| |
p value |
0.03 |
0.01 |
0.00 |
0.05 |
| ADL (limb scale) |
ρ |
-0.46 |
-0.32 |
-0.06 |
-0.49 |
| |
p value |
0.26 |
0.43 |
0.89 |
0.22 |
| Significant results are highlighted in bold (Spearman correlation coefficient) | |||||
Abbreviations: U/E MMT, upper extremity MMT.