Arm Function after Stroke: From Physiology to Recovery

common impairment after stroke. Longitudinal studies of recovery after stroke suggest that only 50% of patients with significant arm paresis recover useful func-tion.3,4 Initial severity of paresis remains the best pre-dictor of recovery of arm function.2,3,5 One study showed that the Fugl-Meyer6 (FM) score at 30 days ................
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