ArticleInnovations in clinical neuroscience2019
Russian Stimulation/Functional Electrical Stimulation in the Treatment of Foot Drop Resulting from Lumbar Radiculopathy: A Case Series.
Article in Innovations in clinical neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06421558 (Impact of Direct Current Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation on Physical Therapy Treatment of Lumbosacral Radiculopathy), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Impact of Direct Current Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation on Physical Therapy Treatment of Lumbosacral Radiculopathy
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 2 citations in OpenAlex.
- Management strategies for the painless foot drop: a systematic review of the literature.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2023Pooled it
- Impact of Russian current therapy targeting the anterior tibial group on balance and fall risk in post-stroke patients: a randomised controlled trial.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Electrical Muscle Stimulation with Russian Current in Chronic Cerebral Ischaemia.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Several studies have debated the rehabilitation merits of functional electrical stimulation (FES) for the treatment of spinal radiculopathies. Many of the related studies have been performed on elite athletes. We utilized the Russian stimulation in three cases to improve outcomes in foot drop secondary to lumbar radiculopathy. These stimulations had positive results, giving patients an increase in strength in the lower limbs after each session. These outcomes suggest that Russian stimulation has potential as an affordable option in the rehabilitation of foot drop from lumbar radiculopathy when used with exercise-based physical therapy.
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