Comparison of Rehabilitation Outcomes with Acoustic Radiation Force (ARFI) Elastosonography in Hemiplegic Patients Treated with Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation
To evaluate the gastrocnemius/soleus and biceps brachii muscle stiffness
by Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) elastography in the hemiplegia
patients, sixty patients with hemiplegia after stroke were recruited. Baseline
data were collected including age, gender, body mass index, education level,
dominant side, affected side, time since stroke, stroke etiology. All patients
were evaluated with before treatment and posttreatment with Broonstroom
staging, Modified Ashworth spasticity scale, and Functional Independence
Measures scale. The patient was divided into 3 groups: 1) Neuromuscular electrical stimulation group, 2) Rehabilitation
group, 3) Neurumusculer electrical stimulation+Rehabilitation
group. Affected and unaffected side biceps and gastrocnemius, ARFI elastography
measurements were used to measure thickness and elastic values. In addition,
before and after
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