Table 1.
Demographic data of the participants.
Fig 1.
Comparisons of spasticity following stroke.
The spasticity scores were increased significantly between initial and 3months, were not different between 3months and 6months after onset(p<0.05, Fig 1). The interaction between spasticity of upper limb and lower limb with time, was not different (p = 0.373). UE, upper extremity; LE, lower extremity.
Fig 2.
Overlay of lesions in all the subjects with stroke (n = 45).
The color indicates the frequency of overlap.
Fig 3.
Statistical voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping for upper limb spasticity.
The nonparametric Brubber Munzel statistical analysis was used for the continuous severe poststroke upper limb spasticity. Color scale indicates Brunner–Munzel rank order z-statistics. Only voxels significant at P<0.05 are shown. Colored bar represents the z statistics. The statistical map is displaying voxels with a minimum Z score of 2.4083. This matches the false discovery rate threshold. We set the maximum range of the Z score as 6, which be shown as being the maximum brightness.
Fig 4.
Statistical voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping for lower limb spasticity.
The nonparametric Brubber Munzel statistical analysis was used for the continuous severe poststroke lower limb spasticity. Color scale indicates Brunner–Munzel rank order z-statistics. Only voxels significant at P<0.05 are shown. Colored bar represents the z statistics. The statistical map is displaying voxels with a minimum Z score of 2.5742. This matches the false discovery rate threshold. We set the maximum range of the Z score as 6, which be shown as being the maximum brightness.
Table 2.
Stroke lesions related to upper extremity spasticity.
Table 3.
Stroke lesions related to lower extremity spasticity.