TABLE 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics.
| Group A |
Group B |
Group C |
p | |
| n = 12 | n = 14 | n = 13 | ||
| Gender—m/f | 10/2 | 10/4 | 8/5 | 0.481a |
| Age (years) | 64 ± 8 | 61 ± 10 | 64 ± 8 | 0.724b |
| Stroke Onset (days) | 64 ± 23 | 79 ± 43 | 75 ± 49 | 0.820b |
| Stroke—i/h | 10/2 | 11/3 | 10/3 | 0.919a |
| Lesion location | 0.176a | |||
| Cortex | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Subcortex | 9 | 13 | 10 | |
| Both | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| FMA-UE | 47 ± 6 | 47 ± 8 | 47 ± 7 | 0.990c |
Group A, high-frequency rTMS during hand grip training; Group B, high-frequency rTMS alone; Group C, hand grip training alone; rTMS, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. m, male; f, female; i, ischemic; h, hemorrhagic; FMA-UE, Fugl–Meyer assessment of upper extremity; rTMS, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Data are mean ± SD. pa, chi-squared test; pb, nonparametric Kruskal–Wallis H test; p,: one-way ANOVA.