Trial reportThe journal of spinal cord medicine2025
Motor priming to enhance the effect of physical therapy in people with spinal cord injury.
Trial report in The journal of spinal cord medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07525752 (Carry-Over Effects of Lower Limb Cross-Training Priming on Upper Limb Function in Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Carry-Over Effects of Lower Limb Cross-Training Priming on Upper Limb Function in Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 3 citations in OpenAlex.
- The impact of non-invasive brain-computer interface technology on the therapeutic effect of patients with spinal cord injury: a summary of evidence based on meta-analysis.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
- Mapping the literature about brain-computer interface in rehabilitation: a graph-theory-based PCA framework for semantic space analysis.European journal of translational myology · 2026Article
- Harnessing Neuroplasticity: The Role of Priming in Enhancing Post Stroke Motor Function.Restorative neurology and neuroscience · 2026Review
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
contextBrain-Computer Interface (BCI) is an emerging neurorehabilitation therapy for people with spinal cord injury (SCI).
objectiveThe study aimed to test whether priming the sensorimotor system using BCI-controlled functional electrical stimulation (FES) before physical practice is more beneficial than physical practice alone.
methodsTen people with subacute SCI participated in a randomized control trial where the experimental (
resultsThe average BCI accuracy was 85%. The experimental group found BCI-FES priming mentally demanding but not frustrating. Two participants in the experimental group did not complete all sessions due to early discharge. There were no significant differences in physical outcomes between the groups. The ratio between eyes closed to eyes opened EEG activity increased more in the experimental group (theta P
conclusionPriming the brain before physical therapy is feasible but may require more than 15 min. This warrants further investigation with an increased sample size.
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