ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2022
Walking and Balance Outcomes Are Improved Following Brief Intensive Locomotor Skill Training but Are Not Augmented by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Persons With Chronic Spinal Cord Injury.
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. It is linked to trial NCT03237234 (SCIMS Project 1), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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SCIMS Project 1: Enhancing Corticospinal Activation for Improved Walking Function
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation on motor and cognitive functions in patients with multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC neurology · 2026Pooled it
- Gait analysis methods in people with spinal cord injury: a systematic review.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
- Non-invasive cerebral and spinal cord stimulation for motor and gait recovery in incomplete spinal cord injury: systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
- Factors Affecting Standing and Walking Outcomes for Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury During In-Patient Rehabilitation: A Qualitative Study on the Perspectives of Physiotherapists.Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapie Canada · 2025Article
- Rehabilitation Training after Spinal Cord Injury Affects Brain Structure and Function: From Mechanisms to Methods.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Gait Recovery in Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review with Metanalysis Involving New Rehabilitative Technologies.Brain sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Motor training to improve walking and balance function is a common aspect of rehabilitation following motor-incomplete spinal cord injury (MISCI). Evidence suggests that moderate- to high-intensity exercise facilitates neuroplastic mechanisms that support motor skill acquisition and learning. Furthermore, enhancing corticospinal drive via transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) may augment the effects of motor training. In this pilot study, we investigated whether a brief moderate-intensity locomotor-related motor skill training (MST) circuit, with and without tDCS, improved walking and balance outcomes in persons with MISCI. In addition, we examined potential differences between within-day (online) and between-day (offline) effects of MST. Twenty-six adults with chronic MISCI, who had some walking ability, were enrolled in a 5-day double-blind, randomized study with a 3-day intervention period. Participants were assigned to an intensive locomotor MST circuit and concurrent application of either sham tDCS (MST+tDCS Clinical Trial Registration: [ClinicalTrials.gov], identifier [NCT03237234].
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