Safety and immediate effect of noninvasive transcranial pulsed current stimulation on gait and balance in parkinson disease

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1089-1095

  Alon, Gad ^a   Yungher, Don A ^b   Shulman, Lisa M ^a   Rogers, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Human Aerospace Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

brain; gait; Parkinson disease; protective stepping; stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PILOT STUDY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; STRIDE LENGTH; TRANSCRANIAL PULSED CURRENT STIMULATION; TREADMILL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTURAL BALANCE; ROBOTICS; WALKING;

EID: 84867308084     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968312448233     Document Type: Article

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