Clinical data and results
| Patient No | Sex | Age (y) | Injected muscles | BTX-A units | MAS | ROM | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before treatment | After treatment1-150 | Pretreatment (degrees) | Post-treatment (degrees)† | ||||||||||||
| 1 | M | 19 | Right B;BR | 50;50 | 3 | 2 | Wrist: 20; fingers: 20 | Wrist: 40; fingers: 45 | |||||||
| B (1.5 months later) | 70 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | M | 18 | Right FDS; FDP | 50;50 | 2 | 1 | Wrist: 0; fingers: 0 | Wrist: 40; fingers: 20 | |||||||
| 3 | M | 42 | Left FCU | 100 | 3 | 2 | Wrist: 0; fingers: 0 | Wrist: 25; fingers: 25 | |||||||
| 4 | M | 25 | Right FCU; FDS; FDP | 48;48 | 4 | 2 | Wrist: 15; fingers: 15 | Wrist: 50; fingers: 50 | |||||||
| FCR; FDP (6 months later) | 50;50 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | M | 21 | Left FCU; PT | 50;50 | 3 | 0 | Wrist: −15; fingers: 20 | Wrist: 15; fingers: 30 | |||||||
| 6 | M | 22 | Left FCR; FDP | 50;50 | 3 | 2 | Wrist: 10; fingers: 20 | Wrist: 20; fingers: 55 | |||||||
| FCR; FDP (3.5 months later) | 50;50 | ||||||||||||||
↵1-150 Significant difference before and after treatment (Student’st test: t = 4.392; p = 0.007;† wrist:t = 6.047; p = 0.002; fingers: t = 7.181; p = 0.000). B = biceps muscle; BR = brachioradialis muscle; FDS = flexor digitorum sublimis muscle; FDP = flexor digitorum profundus muscle; FCR = flexor carpi radialis muscle; FCU = flexor carpi ulnaris muscle; PT = pronator teres muscle; m = months; MAS = modified Ashworth scale; ROM = range of movement.