Effectiveness of the use of a “shoulder joint function orthesis" in shoulder joint subluxation after ischaemic brain stroke to avoid post hemiplegics shoulder-hand syndrome

Primary terminating point:
The sum of SHS scores on the days 14, 21 and 28: x = SHS [d 14] + SHS [d 21] + SHS [d 28]

If a patient doesn’t have a follow-up value (after day seven), he will not be considered evaluable. In this case the recruiting for the replenishment of the drop number continues. Otherwise, the definition of the primary terminating point with missing values or potentially terminator point affecting supplementary therapies, the following rules apply:
Missing values, which no raised values follows, are replaced by the last raised value (rational one: with SHS, the score will rather rise as to sink, without SHS, in reverse).

This procedure is conservative: the therapeutic effect is thereby rather underestimated then overrated. If an additional therapy was necessary because of SHS, which potentially affects the SHS Score, then each raised value will be replaced by the last value noted before begin of the therapy, as long as the value is smaller than the last value before therapy (rational ones: without additional therapy the condition would have probably been not better than before the beginning of the therapy; another worsening during therapy, however is considered with this calculation).

Secondary terminating points:
Are the processes of the SHS score, of the muscle function, the anthropometry and the finger measurement over the four follow-up dates?

Furthermore, the processes of the SHS sub-scores as well as the categorical SHS evaluation will be analysed:
1. Zero to three: no SHS
2. Four to seven: uncertain
3. Eight to 14:SHS

More classifying of the SHS-Scores are formed, if this is put close by the distribution of the score values. Moreover, the data will be analysed in compliance with the four follow-up dates and telephone follow-ups. The entire compliance is formed by summarisation of the ordinal code values of the categories. Long-term terminator points are evaluated and judged by frequency and severances of the SHS symptomatology indicated by telephone follow-up.