ReviewFrontiers in rehabilitation sciences2022
Neurophysiological and clinical outcome measures of the impact of electrical stimulation on spasticity in spinal cord injury: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- The Effects of Functional Electrical Stimulation Cycling on Muscle Spasticity in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
- Immediate Effects of Transcutaneous Spinal Stimulation on Stretch-Induced Spasticity in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Transcutaneous Spinal Stimulation Modulates Spinal Reflex Circuit Excitability in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Grid-based transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation: probing neuromodulatory effect in spinal flexion reflex circuits.Journal of neural engineering · 2025Article
- Functional electrical stimulation enhances motor control in stroke rehabilitation.American journal of translational research · 2025Article
- Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (eSWT) in Spinal Cord Injury-A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Acute suppression of lower limb spasm by sacral afferent stimulation for people with spinal cord injury: A pilot study.Wearable technologies · 2024Article
- Function Electrical Stimulation Effect on Muscle Fatigue Based on Fatigue Characteristic Curves of Dumbbell Weightlifting Training.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
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Abstract
This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to determine whether non-invasive electrical stimulation (ES) is effective at reducing spasticity in people living with spinal cord injury (SCI). PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials databases were searched in April 2022. Primary outcome measures were the Ashworth scale (AS), Modified Ashworth scale (MAS), Pendulum test and the Penn spasm frequency scale (PSFS). Secondary outcomes were the Hoffman (H)- reflex, motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) and posterior-root reflexes (PRRs). A random-effects model, using two correlation coefficients, (
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