Associated Mirror Therapy Enhances Motor Recovery of the Upper Extremity and Daily Function after Stroke: A Randomized Control Study.

"Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest."

"We would like to thank all the patients who participated in the study. This study was funded by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant Nos. 2018YFC2002300 and 2018YFC2002301), National Natural Science Foundation for Innovative Research Group Project of China (Grant No. 82021002), National Natural Science Foundation of China Major Research Program Integration Project (Grant No. 9194830003), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 82002385), and Shanghai Sailing Program (Grant No. 20YF1403400)."

"This study was an assessor-blinded, pretest-posttest, randomized controlled trial. A separate investigator was responsible for the clinical assessments but blinded to the allocation. Meanwhile, two occupation therapists who were responsible for the therapeutic regimens were trained by one researcher. All patients received assessments before the intervention, after 2-week and 4-week intervention. The study was approved by the ethics committee institutions of Huashan Hospital (KY2017-230) and registered at the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR1800018351)."