The effect of single session bi-cephalic transcranial direct current stimulation on gait performance in sub-Acute stroke: A pilot study

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 527-532

  Tahtis, Vassilios ^a   Kaski, Diego ^a   Seemungal, Barry M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

gait; rehabilitation; Stroke; subacute; transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH ELECTRODE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GAIT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION ASSESSMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PERFORMANCE ORIENTED MOBILITY ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SHAM PROCEDURE; STROKE PATIENT; TIMED UP AND GO TEST; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84925884819     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-140393     Document Type: Article

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