Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: future directions.

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) is a potentially useful tool to improve upper limb rehabilitation outcomes after stroke, although its effects in this regard have shown to be limited so far. Additional increases in effectiveness of tDCS in upper limb rehabilitation after stroke may for...

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Autores principales: Elsner, Bernhard, Kugler, Joachim, Mehrholz, Jan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6238340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30442158
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12984-018-0459-7
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description Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) is a potentially useful tool to improve upper limb rehabilitation outcomes after stroke, although its effects in this regard have shown to be limited so far. Additional increases in effectiveness of tDCS in upper limb rehabilitation after stroke may for example be achieved by (1) applying a more focal stimulation approach like high definition tDCS (HD-tDCS), (2) involving functional imaging techniques during stimulation to identify target areas more exactly, (3) applying tDCS during Electroencephalography (EEG) (EEG-tDCS), (4) focusing on an effective upper limb rehabilitation strategy as an effective base treatment after stroke. Perhaps going even beyond the application of tDCS and applying alternative stimulation techniques such as transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) or transcranial Random Noise Stimulation (tRNS) will further increase effectiveness of upper limb rehabilitation after stroke.
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spelling pubmed-62383402018-11-26 Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: future directions. Elsner, Bernhard Kugler, Joachim Mehrholz, Jan J Neuroeng Rehabil Commentary Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) is a potentially useful tool to improve upper limb rehabilitation outcomes after stroke, although its effects in this regard have shown to be limited so far. Additional increases in effectiveness of tDCS in upper limb rehabilitation after stroke may for example be achieved by (1) applying a more focal stimulation approach like high definition tDCS (HD-tDCS), (2) involving functional imaging techniques during stimulation to identify target areas more exactly, (3) applying tDCS during Electroencephalography (EEG) (EEG-tDCS), (4) focusing on an effective upper limb rehabilitation strategy as an effective base treatment after stroke. Perhaps going even beyond the application of tDCS and applying alternative stimulation techniques such as transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) or transcranial Random Noise Stimulation (tRNS) will further increase effectiveness of upper limb rehabilitation after stroke. BioMed Central 2018-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6238340/ /pubmed/30442158 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12984-018-0459-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: future directions.
title Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: future directions.
title_full Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: future directions.
title_fullStr Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: future directions.
title_full_unstemmed Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: future directions.
title_short Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: future directions.
title_sort transcranial direct current stimulation (tdcs) for upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: future directions.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6238340/
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