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- Title
The EXCITE Trial: Predicting a Clinically Meaningful Motor Activity Log Outcome.
- Authors
Si-Woon Park; Wolf, Steven L.; Blanton, Sarah; Winstein, Carolee; Nichols-Larsen, Deborah S.
- Abstract
Background and Objective. This study determined which baseline clinical measurements best predicted a predefined clinically meaningful outcome on the Motor Activity Log (MAL) and developed a predictive multivariate model to determine outcome after 2 weeks of constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) and 12 months later using the database from participants in the Extremity Constraint Induced Therapy Evaluation (EXCITE) Trial. Methods. A clinically meaningful CIMT outcome was defined as achieving higher than 3 on the MAL Quality of Movement (QOM) scale. Predictive variables included baseline MAL, Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT), the sensory and motor portion of the Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA), spasticity, visual perception, age, gender, type of stroke, concordance, and time after stroke. Significant predictors identified by univariate analysis were used to develop the multivariate model. Predictive equations were generated and odds ratios for predictors were calculated from the multivariate model. Results. Pretreatment motor function measured by MAL QOM, WMFT, and FMA were significantly associated with outcome immediately after CIMT. Pretreatment MAL QOM,WMFT, proprioception, and age were significantly associated with outcome after 12 months. Each unit of higher pretreatment MAL QOM score and each unit of faster pretreatment WMFT log mean time improved the probability of achieving a clinically meaningful outcome by 7 and 3 times at posttreatment, and 5 and 2 times after 12 months, respectively. Patients with impaired proprioception had a 20% probability of achieving a clinically meaningful outcome compared with those with intact proprioception. Conclusions. Baseline clinical measures of motor and sensory function can be used to predict a clinically meaningful outcome after CIMT.
- Subjects
MOVEMENT therapy; EXERCISE therapy; CONSTRAINT-induced movement therapy; CEREBROVASCULAR disease -- Exercise therapy; MOTOR learning; CEREBROVASCULAR disease
- Publication
Neurorehabilitation & Neural Repair, 2008, Vol 22, Issue 5, p486
- ISSN
1545-9683
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1545968308316906