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Table 2 Description of submovement metrics

From: Robotic Kinematic measures of the arm in chronic Stroke: part 2 – strong correlation with clinical outcome measures

Submovement Metric

Definition

Number

The number of submovements in an entire movement

Duration (s)

The time from initiation until the termination of an individual submovement

Overlap (s)

Interval between commencement of a submovement and termination of the previous submovement

Peak

(m/s (S/E)

rad/s (wrist))

Peak speed of each individual submovement

Interpeak interval (s)

Interval between peaks of consecutive submovements

  1. Note: S/E = shoulder-elbow. Metric definitions were adapted from Rohrer et al. (Rohrer et al., 2002)