ArticleExperimental brain research2019
Modulation of soleus stretch reflexes during walking in people with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury.
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- Altered cutaneous reflexes to non-noxious stimuli in the triceps surae of people with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
- Enhancing neurorehabilitation by targeting beneficial plasticity.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2023Review
- Quadriceps muscle stimulation evokes heteronymous inhibition onto soleus with limited Ia activation compared to femoral nerve stimulation.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness and Critical Neural Microdamage-Derived Neuroinflammation.Biomolecules · 2022Review
- Significantly Delayed Medium-Latency Response of the Stretch Reflex in Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness of the Quadriceps Femoris Muscles Is Indicative of Sensory Neuronal Microdamage.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2022Article
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- Neurophysiological Changes After Paired Brain and Spinal Cord Stimulation Coupled With Locomotor Training in Human Spinal Cord Injury.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
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Abstract
In people with spasticity due to chronic incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI), it has been presumed that the abnormal stretch reflex activity impairs gait. However, locomotor stretch reflexes across all phases of walking have not been investigated in people with SCI. Thus, to understand modulation of stretch reflex excitability during spastic gait, we investigated soleus stretch reflexes across the entire gait cycle in nine neurologically normal participants and nine participants with spasticity due to chronic incomplete SCI (2.5-11 year post-injury). While the participant walked on the treadmill at his/her preferred speed, unexpected ankle dorsiflexion perturbations (6° at 250°/s) were imposed every 4-6 steps. The soleus H-reflex was also examined. In participants without SCI, spinal short-latency "M1", spinal medium latency "M2", and long-latency "M3" were clearly modulated throughout the step cycle; the responses were largest in the mid-stance and almost completely suppressed during the stance-swing transition and swing phases. In participants with SCI, M1 and M2 were abnormally large in the mid-late-swing phase, while M3 modulation was similar to that in participants without SCI. The H-reflex was also large in the mid-late-swing phase. Elicitation of H-reflex and stretch reflexes in the late swing often triggered clonus and affected the soleus activity in the following stance. In individuals without SCI, moderate positive correlation was found between H-reflex and stretch reflex sizes across the step cycle, whereas in participants with SCI, such correlation was weak to non-existing, suggesting that H-reflex investigation would not substitute for stretch reflex investigation in individuals after SCI.
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