Ipsilateral motor deficits have already been reported in patients with hemispheric lesions affecting skilled sensory-motor tasks such as the pegboard task.
Conflicting results appeared concerning finger tapping and grip strength.
Some authors found a significant impairment2628 which was not recorded by others.
Colebatch and Gandevia measured the moment created by an isometric effort in a population of 20 hemiplegic patients at different times after their stroke.
They also found an impairment of the supposed healthy side.