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Spinal direct current stimulation with locomotor training in chronic spinal cord injury
Transcutaneous spinal direct current stimulation (tsDCS) is a non-invasive method of stimulating spinal circuits that can modulate and induce changes in corticospinal excitability (CE) in incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). A double-blinded sham controlled study of 2 male patients (A and B) with SC...
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Saudi Medical Journal
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31915800 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.1.24818 |
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author | Abualait, Turki S. Ibrahim, Alaa I. |
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description | Transcutaneous spinal direct current stimulation (tsDCS) is a non-invasive method of stimulating spinal circuits that can modulate and induce changes in corticospinal excitability (CE) in incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). A double-blinded sham controlled study of 2 male patients (A and B) with SCI was carried out. Patient A received sham and cathodal tsDCS, while Patient B received sham and anodal tsDCS. Four baselines were recorded prior to each arm of stimulation. Outcomes were then measured post each arm of stimulation; 10-meter walk test, modified ashworth scale, berg balance scale, manual muscle testing, and spinal cord independence measure-III. Transcranial magnetic stimulation, assessed motor evoked potentials. Cathodal tsDCS increased the scores in few of the outcome measures and decreased others. Anodal stimulation increased scores in all measures. Motor evoked potentials increased in post-cathode and deteriorated in post-anode. In conclusion, tsDCS modulated gait parameters, spasticity, and CE in incomplete SCI. |
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spelling | pubmed-70010772021-03-05 Spinal direct current stimulation with locomotor training in chronic spinal cord injury Abualait, Turki S. Ibrahim, Alaa I. Saudi Med J Case Report Transcutaneous spinal direct current stimulation (tsDCS) is a non-invasive method of stimulating spinal circuits that can modulate and induce changes in corticospinal excitability (CE) in incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). A double-blinded sham controlled study of 2 male patients (A and B) with SCI was carried out. Patient A received sham and cathodal tsDCS, while Patient B received sham and anodal tsDCS. Four baselines were recorded prior to each arm of stimulation. Outcomes were then measured post each arm of stimulation; 10-meter walk test, modified ashworth scale, berg balance scale, manual muscle testing, and spinal cord independence measure-III. Transcranial magnetic stimulation, assessed motor evoked potentials. Cathodal tsDCS increased the scores in few of the outcome measures and decreased others. Anodal stimulation increased scores in all measures. Motor evoked potentials increased in post-cathode and deteriorated in post-anode. In conclusion, tsDCS modulated gait parameters, spasticity, and CE in incomplete SCI. Saudi Medical Journal 2020-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7001077/ /pubmed/31915800 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.1.24818 Text en Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Abualait, Turki S. Ibrahim, Alaa I. Spinal direct current stimulation with locomotor training in chronic spinal cord injury |
title | Spinal direct current stimulation with locomotor training in chronic spinal cord injury |
title_full | Spinal direct current stimulation with locomotor training in chronic spinal cord injury |
title_fullStr | Spinal direct current stimulation with locomotor training in chronic spinal cord injury |
title_full_unstemmed | Spinal direct current stimulation with locomotor training in chronic spinal cord injury |
title_short | Spinal direct current stimulation with locomotor training in chronic spinal cord injury |
title_sort | spinal direct current stimulation with locomotor training in chronic spinal cord injury |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31915800 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.1.24818 |
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