ReviewCureus2024
Electrical Stimulation and Motor Function Rehabilitation in Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review.
Review in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Observation on the efficacy of combined electrical stimulation in the treatment of incomplete spinal cord injury: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in neurologyTrial
- Microtubules in Spinal Cord Injury: From Cytoskeletal Dysregulation to Therapeutic Regeneration.Journal of neurochemistry · 2026Review
- Surface circumferential spinal cord recording in freely moving rodents.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Bibliometric analysis of research on spinal cord injury and functional electrical stimulation: trends and frontiers.Spinal cord · 2026Article
- Harnessing Spinal Cord Stimulation and Neuromodulation for Functional Restoration: From Pain Management to Motor Recovery.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Effect of functional electrical stimulation on maximum joint angles and gait asymmetry in female athletes post-anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction when crossing obstacles.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Mechanisms and Applications of Conductive Biomaterials in Spinal Cord Injury Repair.Biomaterials research · 2026Review
- Enhancing Functional Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury Through Neuroplasticity: A Comprehensive Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- A Case of Spinal Cord Stimulation Therapy for Lower Limb Pain Due to Conus Medullaris Syndrome.Cureus · 2025Article
- Role of Epidural Electrode Stimulation in Three Patients with Incomplete AIS D Spinal Cord Injury.Biomedicines · 2025Article
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7 authors.
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Abstract
Spinal cord injury (SCI) often leads to devastating motor impairments, significantly affecting the quality of life of affected individuals. Over the last decades, spinal cord electrical stimulation seems to have encouraging effects on the motor recovery of impacted patients. This review aimed to identify clinical trials focused on motor function recovery through the application of epidural electrical stimulation, transcutaneous electrical stimulation, and functional electrical stimulation. Several clinical trials met these criteria, focusing on the impact of the aforementioned interventions on walking, standing, swimming, trunk stability, and upper extremity functionality, particularly grasp. After a thorough PubMed online database research, 37 clinical trials were included in this review, with a total of 192 patients. Many of them appeared to have an improvement in function, either clinically assessed or recorded through electromyography. This review outlines the various ways electrical stimulation techniques can aid in the motor recovery of SCI patients. It stresses the ongoing need for medical research to refine these techniques and ultimately enhance rehabilitation results in clinical settings.
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