Seok 2010

Methods	RCT
Participants	Country: South Korea Sample size: 40 participants (19 in mirror therapy group, 21 in control group) Inclusion criteria: stroke within 6 months Exclusion criteria: not able to understand treatment instructions; communication difficulties due to aphasia; MMSE < 15 points; musculoskeletal or neurological damage of the unaffected upperextremity; modified Ashworth Scale of 3 or more points; Brunnstrom stage of recovery (arm) of 1 or more than 5 points
Interventions	2 arms: mirror therapy no additional therapy 1 and 2: 5 days a week, 30 minutes of therapy for 4 weeks
Outcomes	Outcomes were recorded at baseline and after 4 weeks of treatment MFT MMT Grip strength
Notes	Published data only, extracted in part on the basis of an unauthorised, automatic translation of the original publication in Korean Significant difference in MFT between groups at baseline measurement
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Low risk	Computer generated random number sequence
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Not stated
ITT analysis	Unclear risk	Not stated
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) primary outcome	Low risk	Assessors were blinded to group allocation