2.1. Participants
arrhythmia, epilepsy, stroke, neurological damage, Parkinson’s disease, fractures, hemiplegia
STROKE, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, ARRHYTHMIA, EPILEPSY
The study participants were inpatients with a subacute stroke who had received physical therapy at C University Hospital in Daejeon City. The inclusion criteria were as follows: (1) hemiplegia due to stroke, (2) factors within 6 months of onset, (3) subcortex damage through diagnoses of magnetic resonance imaging, (4) motor defects in the damaged upper extremities, and (5) a Mini-Mental State Examination score greater than 24 points. The exclusion criteria were as follows: (1) permanent damage such as arrhythmia; (2) upper-limb fractures; (3) neurological damage such as Parkinson’s disease; (4) multiple sclerosis; (5) other reasons limiting upper-limb movement; (6) epilepsy or family history of epilepsy; (7) wearing a metal tube in the skull or pacemaker; or (8) lesions in the occipital lobe [