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Results
Clinical characteristic of the study population
The clinical characteristics of the study population are shown in Table 1. The mean age was 56.65
years old. Seventy seven subjects (62.1%) were males and forty seven of subjects (37.9%) were females.
There were 124 subjects who suffered motoric functional impairment due to stroke attack.
Characteristic
Age
Sex
Male
Female
Total Number (%)
Mean +/ SD
56.65 +/ 11.489
77 (62.1)
47 (37.9)
Significant motoric improvement postTMS intervention
A parametric paired ttest analysis was performed as describe in the method to compare pre and
post the ESS score. The mean of pre score was 70,19 and the mean of postscore was 85,68 with
respectively standard deviation of 18,264 and 13,372. Thus, there was an average improvement score of
15,48 using ESS score (0100) with a standard deviation of 11,03. (p<0,05)
Ttest resulted in a t value of 15,63 and with two tail critical value of 1,98 with a confidence interval of
95%. Thus, there is a significant overall improvement as a result of TMS intervention. The graph below
indicates an association in comparison of pre and post score of ESS. There is a clear improvement in ESS
score
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Figure
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Significant elevation of ESS Score of stroke patients with post TMS Intervention. There was an average
elevation of 15,48 from pre to post ESS score. (CI=95%)(p<0,05)
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