Neurorehabilitation and neural repair
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Neurorehabil Neural Repair · Jun 2010
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialReduction of spasticity with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with spinal cord injury.
Spasticity with increased tone and spasms is frequent in patients after spinal cord injury (SCI). Damage to descending corticospinal pathways that normally exert spinal segmental control is thought to play an important causal role in spasticity. The authors examined whether the modulation of excitability of the primary motor cortex with high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) could modify lower limb spasticity in patients with incomplete SCI. ⋯ High-frequency rTMS over the leg motor area can improve aspects of spasticity in patients with incomplete SCI.