Short-term plasticity in a monosynaptic reflex pathway to forearm muscles after continuous robot-assisted passive stepping

Short-term plasticity in a monosynaptic reflex pathway to forearm muscles after continuous robot-assisted passive stepping

Both active and passive rhythmic limb movements reduce the amplitude of spinal cord Hoffmann (H-) reflexes in muscles of moving and distant limbs. This could have clinical utility in remote modulation of the pathologically hyperactive reflexes found in spasticity after stroke or spinal cord injury....

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Main Authors: Tsuyoshi Nakajima, Kiyotaka Kamibayashi, Taku Kitamura, Tomoyoshi Komiyama, E Paul Zehr, Kimitaka Nakazawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
Humans
short-term plasticity
spinal reflex
afferent feedback
Passive stepping
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00368/full

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