Table 1.

Demographic data of the patients.

	Hand-arm bimanual intensive therapy (n = 64)	Conventional rehabilitation program (n = 64)	P-value
Gender			0.596*
Male	34 (53.1%)	31 (48.4%)
Female	30 (46.9%)	33 (51.6%)
Age (years)	55.38 ± 6.97	55.19 ± 7.82	0.886**
Disease duration before consenting to the study (h)	8.87 ± 2.69	9.08 ± 2.35	0.609**
Side of lesion			0.327*
Right	35 (54.7%)	33 (51.6%)
Left	29 (45.3%)	31 (48.4%)
Lesion type			0.684*
Ischemic	50 (78.1%)	45 (70.3%)
Hemorrhagic	14 (21.9%)	19 (29.7%)
Fugl-Meyer motor assessment	33.25 ± 5.89	32.86 ± 5.11	0.689**
Action research arm test	30.31 ± 6.07	31.48 ± 5.94	0.272**
AMP (mV)	0.63 ± 0.12	0.63 ± 0.06	0.993**
Central motor conduction time (ms)	11.56 ± 0.85	11.53 ± 0.87	0.888**
Resting motion threshold (%)	64.35 ± 4.11	65.75 ± 4.28	0.062**

Values are presented as mean ± SD.

*Chi-square test.

**Student’s t-test.

AMP was evaluated in the C3 area of the affected cerebral hemisphere.