Finger Tapping of Stroke Patients' Unaffected Hand Is Different from Healthy / 中国康复理论与实践

ABSTRACT

Objective To compare finger tapping of stroke patients' unaffected hands to the same hands of healthy people. Methods 40 stroke patients with left hemiplegia (25 males and 15 females), including 11 cases of cerebral hemorrhage and 29 cases of cerebral infarc-tion, and other 40 healthy people were tested the finger tapping of right hand. Results The finger tapping was significantly lower in the stroke patients than in the healthy people (P<0.01). There was no difference in finger tapping between patients with cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction (P<0.05). Conclusion Motor function of fingers in unaffected hands is injured in stroke patients.