ArticleExperimental brain research2019
Forced use of paretic leg induced by constraining the non-paretic leg leads to motor learning in individuals post-stroke.
Article in Experimental brain research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05874661 (The Effect of Focus of Attention on Motor Performance and Learning During a Sit to Stand Task in Individuals Post-stroke), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers.
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The Effect of Focus of Attention on Motor Performance and Learning During a Sit to Stand Task in Individuals Post-stroke
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Noninvasive spatiotemporal spinal neuromodulation targeting dorsal roots improves paretic leg motor control during walking in persons with stroke.Journal of neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Transcutaneous spinal stimulation paired with visual feedback facilitates retention of improved weight transfer toward the affected side in people post-stroke.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Cortical drive may facilitate enhanced use of the paretic leg induced by random constraint force to the non-paretic leg during walking in chronic stroke.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Enhanced phasic calf muscle activation with swing resistance enhances propulsion of the paretic leg in people poststroke.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Article
- PEMOCS: theory derivation of a concept for PErsonalized MOtor-Cognitive exergame training in chronic Stroke-a methodological paper with an application example.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Overground walking with a constraint force on the nonparetic leg during swing improves weight shift toward the paretic side in people after stroke.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
- Enhanced phasic sensory afferents paired with controlled constraint force improve weight shift toward the paretic side in individuals post-stroke.Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association · 2023Article
- Progress in the clinical application of constraint-induced therapy following stroke since 2014.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Review
- A novel balance training approach: Biomechanical study of virtual reality-based skateboarding.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Different modulation of oscillatory common neural drives to ankle muscles during abrupt and gradual gait adaptations.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Enhanced error facilitates motor learning in weight shift and increases use of the paretic leg during walking at chronic stage after stroke.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Gradual adaptation to pelvis perturbation during walking reinforces motor learning of weight shift toward the paretic side in individuals post-stroke.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Targeted Pelvic Constraint Force Induces Enhanced Use of the Paretic Leg During Walking in Persons Post-Stroke.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2020Article
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine whether applying repetitive constraint forces to the non-paretic leg during walking would induce motor learning of enhanced use of the paretic leg in individuals post-stroke. Sixteen individuals post chronic (> 6 months) stroke were recruited in this study. Each subject was tested in two conditions, i.e., applying a constraint force to the non-paretic leg during treadmill walking and treadmill walking only. For the constraint condition, subjects walked on a treadmill with no force for 1 min (baseline), with force for 7 min (adaptation), and then without force for 1 min (post-adaptation). For the treadmill only condition, a similar protocol was used but no force was applied. EMGs from muscles of the paretic leg and ankle kinematic data were recorded. Spatial-temporal gait parameters during overground walking pre and post treadmill walking were also collected. Integrated EMGs of ankle plantarflexors and hip extensors during stance phase significantly increased during the early adaptation period, and partially retained (15-21% increase) during the post-adaptation period for the constraint force condition, which were significantly greater than that for the treadmill only (3-5%) condition. The symmetry of step length during overground walking significantly improved (p = 0.04) after treadmill walking with the constraint condition, but had no significant change after treadmill walking only. Repetitively applying constraint force to the non-paretic leg during treadmill walking may lead to a motor learning of enhanced use of the paretic leg in individuals post-stroke, which may transfer to overground walking.
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