Table 3.

Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) and muscle tone before and 6 months after stem cell transplantation

	Baseline	6 months posttransplantation	Mean difference
	Mean±SD	Mean±SD	[95% CI]
Total GMFM-88	21.71±10.06	40.03±14.79	18.32 [14.99; 21.64] ***
A. Lying & Rolling	16.27±9.26	37.59±17.09	21.31 [16.83; 25.79] ***
B. Sitting	12.56±10. 46	30.51±19.60	17.94 [12.20; 23.69] ***
C. Crawling & Kneeling	8.15± 6.64	22.23±19.69	14.08 [8.02; 20.13] ***
D. Standing	3.74±2.35	13.78±9.69	10.04 [4.08; 15.99] **
E. Walking, Running & Jumping	2.28±1.54	5.70±4.62	3.41 [0.22; 6.60] *
GMFM-66 Percentiles	29.76±16.68	74.96± 24.40	45.2 [35.93; 54.46] ***
Modified Ashworth Score	3.77±0.68	2.16±0.70	−1.60 [− 1.84; − 1.37] ***

***P-value < 0.0001 (paired t-test, compared to baseline)

**P-value < 0.001 (paired t-test, compared to baseline)

*P-value< 0.05 (paired t-test, compared to baseline)