Fig 1.
CONSORT flow-chart.
Table 1.
Demographic and clinical features of experimental and control groups.
Table 2.
Outcome assessments at baseline and post intervention.
Fig 2.
Change over time of median ARAT and FMA-UE scores for M-TOT and C-TOT groups, and their subgroups.
ARAT: Action research arm test; FMA-UE: Fugl Meyer assessment for the upper limbs. M-TOT: Myoelectric control of functional electrical stimulation-task oriented training; C-TOT: control-task oriented training. T0: baseline visit; T1: after 8 rehabilitation sessions; T2: after 16 rehabilitation sessions; T3: post-treatment visit (after 25 rehabilitation sessions, 6–7 weeks).
Table 3.
Number of improved patients (ΔARATpre-post ≥5) at post-treatment visit in the M-TOT and the C-TOT group, with differences and confidence intervals.
Table 4.
Median differences of ARAT, FMA-UE and DASH scores from baseline (T0) to post-treatment visit (T3).
Table 5.
Median differences of ARAT, FMA-UEand DASH scores from baseline (T0) to Post (T3) and to the 6-week follow-up visit (T4).