Tarun Arora, Jia Liu, Akhil Mohan, Xin Li, Kyle O'laughlin, Teale Bennett, Gregory Nemunaitis, Francois Bethoux, Svetlana Pundik, Gail Forrest, Steven Kirshblum, Kevin Kilgore, Anne Bryden, M Kristi Henzel, Xiaofeng Wang, Kelsey Baker, Nabila Brihmat, Mehmed Bayram, Ela B Plow
OBJECTIVE: Corticospinal inhibitory mechanisms are relevant to functional recovery but remain poorly understood after spinal cord injury (SCI). Post-injury characteristics of contralateral silent period (CSP), a measure of corticospinal inhibition evaluated using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), is inconsistent in literature. We envisioned that investigating CSP across muscles with varying degrees of weakness may be a reasonable approach to resolve inconsistencies and elucidate the relevance of corticospinal inhibition for upper extremity function following SCI...
February 28, 2024: Clinical Neurophysiology: Official Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology