Table 1.

Clinical data

	Gender (M/F)	Age (yr)	Affected side (left/right)	Height (cm)	Weight (kg)	Course (d)	Brunnstrom stage (III/IV)
Experimental group	8/8	50.00 ± 5.66	6/10	162.89 ± 7.55	65.78 ± 5.59	45.63 ± 8.09	4/12
Control group	8/8	52.13 ± 6.77	8/8	168.13 ± 14.04	66.25 ± 5.82	41.88 ± 5.54	4/12
P value	1.000	0.507	0.614	0.372	0.870	0.298	1.000

Except for gender, affected side, and Brunnstrom stage, the rest of the data are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation. M: Male; F: Female.