Transcranial direct current stimulation is not effective in the motor strength and gait recovery following motor incomplete spinal cord injury during Lokomat® gait training

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 620, Issue , 2016, Pages 143-147

  Kumru, Hatice ^a,b,c   Murillo, Narda ^a,b,c   Benito Penalva, Jesus ^a,b,c   Tormos, Jose M ^a,b,c   Vidal, Joan ^a,b,c  

^a University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIÓ EN CIÈNCIES DE LA SALUT GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gait rehabilitation; Lokomat; Lower extremity motor score; Spinal cord injury; TDCS

Indexed keywords

10 METER WALKING TEST; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GAIT; GAIT ORTHOSIS; HUMAN; LOWER EXTREMITY MOTOR SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION ASSESSMENT; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WALKING INDEX FOR SCI; YOUNG ADULT; CONVALESCENCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL INJURIES;

ADULT; AGED; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; GAIT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; ROBOTICS; SPINAL INJURIES; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964992894     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2016.03.056     Document Type: Article

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