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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2025

Motor Imagery for Post-Stroke Upper Limb Recovery: A Meta-Analysis of RCTs on Fugl-Meyer Upper Extremity Scores.

Luis Polo-Ferrero, Javier Torres-Alonso, Juan Luis Sánchez-González, Sara Hernández-Rubia, Rubén Pérez-Elvira, Javier Oltra-Cucarella

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Luis Polo-FerreroDepartment of Nursing and Physiotherapy, Universidad de Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8349-0441
Javier Torres-AlonsoDepartment of Nursing and Physiotherapy, Universidad de Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain.ORCID 0009-0008-4335-5086
Juan Luis Sánchez-GonzálezInstituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca (IBSAL), 37007 Salamanca, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4791-6513
Sara Hernández-RubiaDepartment of Nursing and Physiotherapy, Universidad de Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain.ORCID 0009-0005-6467-5036
Rubén Pérez-ElviraDepartment of Psychobiology, Pontifical University of Salamanca, 37002 Salamanca, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9606-3791
Javier Oltra-CucarellaDepartment of Health Psychology, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, 03202 Alicante, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5966-8556

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Fugl-Meyermeta-analysismotor imageryneurorehabilitationstrokeupper-limb recovery

Identifiers

PMID41227288
PMCPMC12610791

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