Although the mechanism of the effects is debatable, there seems to be a positive long-term effect of acupuncture given in the subacute stage post stroke.
We conclude that the scalability of the different items is not optimal. For some items, the top and/or bottom levels are overrepresented and for other items the middle levels tend to cluster. There seems to be a single construct except for one of the items. The instrument also showed the same meaning for the different subgroups.
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