Efficacy of EMG-triggered electrical arm stimulation in chronic hemiparetic stroke patients

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 189-197

  Von Lewinski, Friederike ^a   Hofer, Sabine ^b   Kaus, Jürgen ^c   Merboldt, Klaus Dietmar ^b   Rothkegel, Holger ^a   Schweizer, Renate ^b   Liebetanz, David ^a   Frahm, Jens ^b   Paulus, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

EMG triggered electrostimulation; fMRI; Neuroplasticity; Stroke; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OXYGEN; PARESIS; STROKE;

EID: 68149162393     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2009-0469     Document Type: Article

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