Deans' stroke musings: Association between upper limb motor function and balance in patients after stroke: a multicenter cross-sectional study

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Association between upper limb motor function and balance in patients after stroke: a multicenter cross-sectional study

Associations DO NOTHING for stroke recovery! You need EXACT PROTOCOLS FOR THAT!

And you're so fucking incompetent you don't know that! WOW! That's impressive incompetence!

Association between upper limb motor function and balance in patients after stroke: a multicenter cross-sectional study

Scientific Reports , Article number: (2026) Cite this article

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Abstract

Using cross-sectional data from 26 general hospitals in China that treated stroke patients in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, the aim of this research is to explore the potential association between upper limb motor function and balance function after stroke. We conducted a prospective cross-sectional study involving 1573 stroke patients hospitalized in the rehabilitation medicine departments of 26 hospitals across China. Upper limb motor function and balance were evaluated using the Fugl-Meyer Assessment-Upper Extremity (FMA-UE) and the Berg Balance Scale (BBS), respectively. Linear regression analysis and smoothing curve fitting were performed to examine the relationship between upper limb motor and balance functions. This study included 1573 non-pregnant adults aged 18 years or older, with a mean age of 61.2 ± 12.5 years, of whom 69.0% were male. After adjusting for potential confounders, a significant positive association was observed between upper limb motor function and balance function after stroke (β = 0.48, 95% CI: 0.44–0.51, p < 0.001). Subgroup analyses indicated that this association was more pronounced in the acute phase (≤ 7 days) compared with the subacute and recovery phases. No significant interactions were detected across other subgroups (p > 0.05 for all interactions). Smooth curve fitting revealed distinct saturation effects for FMA-UE and BBS, with inflection points at 25 and 45, respectively. Sensitivity analyses further confirmed these results, supporting the robustness of the findings. This study identified a significant positive association between upper limb motor function and balance function following stroke, highlighting the potential role of upper limb motor recovery in predicting balance outcomes. Further large-scale and multidimensional studies are needed to clarify the underlying mechanisms linking upper limb motor control and post-stroke balance function.