TABLE 4.

Spearman correlation coefficients (ρ) for SNE and clinical assessments.

	SNEAEMG				SNERMS
n = 60	UCU		UCA		UCU		UCA
	ρ	P-value	ρ	P-value	ρ	P−value	ρ	P-value
DD	0.127	0.334	–0.017	0.895	0.066	0.616	–0.096	0.468
BR−UEa	-0.026	0.844	0.017	0.899	0.025	0.850	–0.162	0.217
BR−Ha	0.093	0.478	–0.024	0.854	0.133	0.312	–0.103	0.434
BR−La	0.059	0.655	0.091	0.488	0.074	0.573	–0.083	0.529
BI a	-0.006	0.964	0.118	0.370	0.026	0.844	0.013	0.920
BR−UEd	-0.035	0.790	0.058	0.661	0.020	0.879	–0.064	0.624
BR−Hd	0.115	0.381	0.175	0.181	0.162	0.215	0.090	0.492
BR−Ld	0.141	0.281	0.145	0.269	0.139	0.289	0.004	0.979
BI d	0.007	0.957	0.183	0.162	0.051	0.698	0.089	0.499
BR−UEc	-0.019	0.888	0.064	0.630	-0.041	0.758	0.190	0.146
BR−Hc	-0.071	0.590	0.330	0.010*	-0.054	0.680	0.296	0.022*
BR−Lc	0.033	0.801	0.028	0.831	0.006	0.966	0.160	0.222
BI c	0.093	0.478	0.068	0.607	0.091	0.490	0.096	0.466

DD, disease duration; BR-UE, Brunnstrom stage of upper extremity (shoulder and elbow); BR-H, Brunnstrom stage of hand; BR-L, Brunnstrom stage of lower extremity; BI, Barthel index; ^aassessment at admission; ^dassessment at discharge; ^cthe improvement of assessment score. *p < 0.05.