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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2022

Stimulation Parameters Used During Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Motor Recovery and Corticospinal Excitability Modulation in SCI: A Scoping Review.

Nabila Brihmat, Didier Allexandre, Soha Saleh, Jian Zhong, Guang H Yue, Gail F Forrest

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Nabila BrihmatTim and Caroline Reynolds Center for Spinal Stimulation, Kessler Foundation, West Orange, NJ, United States.
Didier AllexandreDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, United States.
Soha SalehDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, United States.
Jian ZhongBurke Neurological Institute and Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, White Plains, NY, United States.
Guang H YueDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, United States.
Gail F ForrestTim and Caroline Reynolds Center for Spinal Stimulation, Kessler Foundation, West Orange, NJ, United States.
Rutgers New Jersey Medical SchoolKessler Foundation · USBurke Medical Research Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a growing interest in non-invasive stimulation interventions as treatment strategies to improve functional outcomes and recovery after spinal cord injury (SCI). Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a neuromodulatory intervention which has the potential to reinforce the residual spinal and supraspinal pathways and induce plasticity. Recent reviews have highlighted the therapeutic potential and the beneficial effects of rTMS on motor function, spasticity, and corticospinal excitability modulation in SCI individuals. For this scoping review, we focus on the stimulation parameters used in 20 rTMS protocols. We extracted the rTMS parameters from 16 published rTMS studies involving SCI individuals and were able to infer preliminary associations between specific parameters and the effects observed. Future investigations will need to consider timing, intervention duration and dosage (in terms of number of sessions and number of pulses) that may depend on the stage, the level, and the severity of the injury. There is a need for more real vs. sham rTMS studies, reporting similar designs with sufficient information for replication, to achieve a significant level of evidence regarding the use of rTMS in SCI.

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neuromodulationplasticityrecoveryspasticitystimulation parametersvariability

Identifiers

PMID35463922
PMCPMC9033167
OpenAlexW4225815860

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