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ArticleThe journal of spinal cord medicine2017

Usefulness of robotic gait training plus neuromodulation in chronic spinal cord injury: a case report.

Rocco Salvatore Calabrò, Antonino Naro, Antonino Leo, Placido Bramanti

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Article in The journal of spinal cord medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Restoration of fertility in a young patient with spinal cord injury: is there a place for noninvasive neurostimulation?Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2018
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  16. Robotic Rehabilitation and Spinal Cord Injury: a Narrative Review.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rocco Salvatore Calabròa IRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino-Pulejo" Messina , Italy.
Antonino Naroa IRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino-Pulejo" Messina , Italy.
Antonino Leoa IRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino-Pulejo" Messina , Italy.
Placido Bramantia IRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino-Pulejo" Messina , Italy.
Centro Neurolesi Bonino Pulejo · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

contextSpinal cord injury (SCI) affects more than 2.5 million people worldwide, often leading to severe disability. Thus, a proper management of individuals with SCI is required either in the acute or in the post-acute rehabilitative phase.

findingsA 31-year-old man, affected by chronic SCI, underwent two different intensive rehabilitation treatments, including either LokomatPro or a paired LokomatPro-rTMS training. We evaluated the clinical, kinetic, and electrophysiological parameters before and after each training session. In particular, the intensive robotic training was articulated in a total of 40 one-hour training sessions (i.e. 5 times a week for 8 weeks), whereas the rTMS sessions were delivered 3 days per week for 3 consecutive weeks, just before the LokomatPro session. Only at the end of the experimental treatment, we observed an important improvement in nearly all parameters we investigated. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: The combined LokomatPro-rTMS rehabilitation may be a valuable approach in improving the motor function in patients affected by SCI, even in the chronic phase.

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GaitAdultExercise TherapyHumansMaleNeurological RehabilitationRoboticsSpinal Cord InjuriesTranscranial Magnetic StimulationLokomatProRepetitive transcranial magnetic stimulationRobot-assisted gait therapySpinal cord injurySpinal plasticity

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PMID27077568
PMCPMC5376144
OpenAlexW2298237027

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