Fig. 5

Comparison of ECAS total scores between SMA type 2/3 patients with improvement (score change > 0) and without improvement (score change ≤ 0) in motor outcome scores

ALSFRS-R: ALS Functional Rating Scale Revised; ECAS: Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioral ALS Screen; HFMSE: Hammersmith Functional Motor Scale Expanded; RULM: Revised Upper Limb Module; ns: statistically not significant; Box plots show median (horizontal line), inter-quartile range (boxes) and scores outside of inter-quartile range (whiskers). Calculated by Mann-Whitney U-test