Cortical and spinal excitability changes after robotic gait training in healthy participants

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-149

  Blicher, Jakob U ^a,b   Nielsen, Jørgen F ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Research Unit   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Human locomotion; Intracortical inhibition; Motor cortex; Plasticity; Spinal cord; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; ROBOTICS; TEACHING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 58849131070     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968308317973     Document Type: Article

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