ArticlePhysical therapy research2020
Differences in muscle thickness and echo intensity between stroke survivors and age- and sex-matched healthy older adults.
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- Observational Evaluation of Muscle Echointensity and EMG Insertional Activity in Poststroke Spasticity.Muscle & nerve · 2026Observational
- Longitudinal assessment of lower limb muscle quantity and quality in acute stroke patients.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2026Observational
- Association Between Electrophysiological Evaluation and Muscle Quality Changes in the Lower Limb of Subacute Stroke Patients: A Pilot Longitudinal Observational Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Differences in muscle quality, muscle strength, and functional motor performance between people after stroke and age- and sex-matched apparently healthy adults: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Examination of evaluation indicators for spasticity in stroke patients using ultrasound imaging equipment.Journal of physical therapy science · 2024Article
- Changes in Lower Extremity Muscle Quantity and Quality in Patients with Subacute Stroke.Annals of rehabilitation medicine · 2023Article
- Variability in Cross-Sectional Muscle Atrophy: Insights From the Central Rectus Femoris.Cureus · 2023Article
- Ultrasound Assessment of Spastic Muscles in Ambulatory Chronic Stroke Survivors Reveals Function-Dependent Changes.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2023Article
- Changes in Muscle Thickness and Echo Intensity in Chronic Stroke Survivors: A 2-Year Longitudinal Study.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2022Article
- Quantitative Evaluation of Biceps Brachii Muscle by Shear Wave Elastography in Stroke Patients.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2022Article
- Cut-off Values for Lower Limb Muscle Thickness to Detect Low Muscle Mass for Sarcopenia in Older Adults.Clinical interventions in aging · 2021Article
- Nutritional status, abdominal muscle thickness, and functional outcomes in patients with subacute to chronic stroke.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThe stroke survivors exhibit change in muscle quantity and quality compared to healthy older adults. This study aimed to compare the muscle thickness (MT) and echo intensity (EI) values of individual muscles between stroke survivors and age- and sex-matched healthy older adults.
methodsIn total, 27 stroke survivors and 34 healthy older adults participated in this study. The MT and EI values of the following muscles were assessed from transverse ultrasound images: rectus abdominis (RA), external oblique, internal oblique, transversus abdominis, rectus femoris, vastus intermedius (VI), vastus lateralis (VL), vastus medialis (VM), tibialis anterior (TA), gastrocnemius (Gas), and soleus (Sol). The MT and EI values of these muscles were compared between stroke survivors and healthy older adults.
resultsThe MT values of the VL, VM, and RA on the non-paretic sides were significantly higher and those of the TA, Gas, and Sol on the paretic sides were significantly lower in the stroke survivors than in the healthy older adults (P < 0.05). The EI values of the VI, VL, VM, TA on the paretic sides and those of the Gas on both the paretic and non-paretic sides were significantly higher in the stroke survivors than in the healthy older adults (P < 0.05).
conclusionStroke survivors seem to develop muscle hypertrophy of the non-paretic thigh muscles owing to a compensatory strategy. In addition, the lower-leg muscles on the paretic side of stroke survivors tend to show both quantitative and qualitative muscle changes.
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