Table 2.
Stroke Participant Task Performance
| Cut off percentile | Healthy Control Data n = 96 |
No Spasticity n = 17 | Flexors Only n = 13 |
Extensors Only n = 3 |
Both Muscle Groups n = 13 |
Inter Rater (ICC) | Clinical Correlations | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAS | MTS | ||||||||||
| Extension | (%) | Mean (cut off value) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (r) | V1 | V2 | V3 | |
| Peak Velocity (°/s) | <5 | 306 (286) | 41 | 77 | 100 | 92 | 0.90 | -0.47 | −0.33 | -0.51 | -0.51 |
| Final Angle (°) | <5 | M: 143 (140) F: 144 (141) |
18 | 54 | 67 | 85 | 0.86 | -0.46 | −0.34 | -0.44 | −0.39 |
| Creep (°) | >95 | −0.05 (0.16) | 12 | 54 | 67 | 77 | 0.66 | 0.55 | 0.40 | 0.44 | 0.45 |
| Difference | |||||||||||
| Peak Velocity (°/s) | >95 | M: 5.4 (33.5) F: 3.1 (27.5) |
47 | 85 | 100 | 92 | 0.95 | 0.15 | −0.25 | 0.04 | 0.09 |
| Final Angle (°) | <5 | 0.19 (−1.9) | 29 | 77 | 100 | 85 | 0.91 | -0.49 | −0.35 | -0.49 | -0.45 |
| Creep (°) | >95 | M:0.09 (0.26) F: 0.04 (0.37) |
24 | 62 | 33 | 77 | 0.74 | 0.59 | 0.40 | 0.44 | 0.45 |
| Flexion | |||||||||||
| Peak Velocity (°/s) | >95 | M: 269 (240) F: 280 (255) |
41 | 62 | 100 | 92 | 0.87 | −0.34 | −0.27 | −0.38 | −0.34 |
| Final Angle (°) | <5 | M: 68 (69) F: 67 (70) |
47 | 38 | 100 | 77 | 0.84 | 0.46 | 0.32 | 0.53 | 0.45 |
| Creep (°) | >95 | −0.04 (0.28) | 24 | 85 | 100 | 92 | 0.86 | 0.62 | 0.34 | 0.43 | 0.57 |
| Difference | |||||||||||
| Peak Velocity (°/s) | >95 | M:-1.5(33.7) F: −0.9 (30.7) |
59 | 85 | 100 | 92 | 0.88 | 0.12 | 0.30 | 0.17 | 0.17 |
| Final Angle (°) | >95 | −0.01 (2.06) | 18 | 46 | 100 | 54 | 0.88 | 0.50 | 0.32 | 0.48 | 0.48 |
| Creep (°) | >95 | 0.009 (0.41) | 12 | 62 | 67 | 92 | 0.79 | 0.64 | 0.36 | 0.58 | 0.55 |
Abbreviations: M male, F female, ICC Intra-class Correlation, MAS Modified Ashworth Scale, MTS Modified Tardieu Scale, V1–3 reflect the 3 test speeds V1 is slow as possible, V2 is speed of limb falling under gravity, V3 is moving as fast as possible
Difference parameters are the between-arm differences. Italicized values for clinical correlations represent P < 0.004 (Bonferroni corrected, n = 12 tests)