MRI infarction load and CI therapy outcomes for chronic post-stroke hemiparesis.

To evaluate the effect of total cerebral infarction volume on motor status and treatment responses to Constraint-Induced Movement therapy (CI therapy) in patients with chronic post-stroke hemiparesis and limb nonuse. In most studies of clinical-radiological correspondences, infarct volume has been found to predict clinical status.60 adult patients who met inclusion criteria for CI therapy underwent standard structural brain MRI around the time...