Results
140 stroke, stroke, post-stroke
STROKE
Among 140 stroke patients assessed for eligibility, 42 were included (Fig. Participant flow through the longitudinal post-stroke study (CONSORT flow chart)Clinical characteristics of the 42 included stroke patients*Student t-test; MWU test: Mann–Whitney U testRange of clinical scale and clinical cut off value are as follows: MMSE [0–30, ≥ 25 normal], Barthel index [0–100, 100 normal], BBT [0-no upper limit, > 54 blocks/s normal], MPUT [0-60 s per item, ≤ 1.6 normal], ARAT [0–57, 57 normal]. We checked how many patients were in the 3–6 months post-stroke phase, since residual improvement may be greater than after 6 months [