Daily Electrical Muscle Stimulation Enhances Functional Recovery Following Nerve Transection and Repair in Rats

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 690-700

  Willand, Michael P ^a   Chiang, Cameron D ^a   Zhang, Jennifer J ^a   Kemp, Stephen W P ^a   Borschel, Gregory H ^a   Gordon, Tessa ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrical muscle stimulation; Electromyography; Muscle denervation; Muscular atrophy; Peripheral nerve injuries; Tibial nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTRICAL MUSCLE STIMULATION; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SUTURING METHOD; WALKING; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME; TRANSGENIC RAT;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84937880463     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968314562117     Document Type: Article

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