Table 2. Comparison of Motor Assessment and Post-Stroke Complications Between the Independent Functional Recovery Group (n = 255) and Non-Functional Recovery Group (n = 103).
| Characteristics | Functional recovery |
Non-functional recovery |
P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Follow-up motor assessment | |||||
| MMT arm | < 0.001** | ||||
| Grade 0 - 1 | 95 | 24.70 | 70 | 70.71 | |
| Grade 2 - 3 | 94 | 37.45 | 24 | 24.24 | |
| More than 3 + | 62 | 37.85 | 5 | 5.05 | |
| MMT leg | < 0.001** | ||||
| Grade 0 - 1 | 47 | 18.73 | 62 | 62.63 | |
| Grade 2 - 3 | 102 | 40.64 | 31 | 31.31 | |
| More than 3 + | 102 | 40.64 | 6 | 6.06 | |
| Stroke-related complications | |||||
| Aphasia | < 0.001** | ||||
| Dysarthria | 100 | 39.84 | 37 | 38.14 | |
| Motor/sensory aphasia | 31 | 12.35 | 9 | 0.001 | |
| Global aphasia | 24 | 9.56 | 24 | 9.28 | |
| Dysphagia | 10 | 4.00 | 11 | 24.74 | 0.033* |
| Inattention | 14 | 5.60 | 11 | 11.22 | 0.107 |
| Apraxia | 4 | 1.57 | 1 | 0.97 | 1.000 |
| Depression | 9 | 3.60 | 9 | 9.18 | 0.042* |
| Other complications | < 0.001** | ||||
| One complication | 50 | 20.08 | 24 | 24.24 | |
| Two or more complications | 21 | 8.43 | 23 | 23.23 | |
MMT: manual muscle testing; *P < 0.05, **P < 0.001.