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Individuals who have suffered stoke lose functionality and possess impaired motor control commonly in one side of their bodies. Subjects with post-stroke hemiparesis in their legs usually undergo physiotherapeutic training to attempt to correct their loss of motor control. With therapy routines currently in use there was no way to predict a patient's response before they started their training since there was no specific measure of judgement. Stroke subjects in this study had participated in corrective walking training therapy and their response was measured over three evaluation stages. Response to therapy was measured by an increase in the patient's gait speed during the evaluation, whereby a significant increase was enough to classify a subject as having responded to the treatment and no significant increase would warrant the patient be classified as a non-responder. This study aimed at providing evidence to classify subjects into one of the two groups listed above based solely on electromyographic (EMG) leg activation data and the associated technique of synergy analysis with its various methods and whether or not we could predict those subjects who would or would not respond to therapy from baseline i.e. before starting therapy, using statistical classification tools post synergy analysis. The detection of significant differences between responders to the training and non-responders leads us to believe that muscle synergy analysis possesses significant strengths and provides us with better clinical significance in classification than traditional baseline clinical methods.