Dynamic visual cueing in combination with treadmill training for gait rehabilitation in Parkinson disease.

Various cueing techniques as well as treadmill training have been shown to be effective in the gait rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson disease. We present a novel setup combining both dynamic visual cueing and body weight-supported treadmill training. A nonambulatory patient with Parkinson disease received six training sessions.

Motor threshold as indicator of premotor and motor cortex excitability.

Unlabelled: The premotor cortex is a second generator of motorics, involved in mass inborn movements performance, and in pathology--in genesis of spasticity and other motor disorders. As far as the repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is expected to be a therapeutic tool in some movement disorders, the investigation of premotor cortex response to TMS seems to be an important first step. The goal of our work was to picture the difference in motor responses of premotor and primary motor areas to TMS, by means of motor threshold (MT), and to give a simple and easy testing method, which may be of use before trying therapeutic TMS in some motor disorders.

Neural observer based spasticity quantification during therapeutic muscle stimulation.

Repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation (RPMS) is an innovative approach in treatment of central paresis, e.g. after stroke.

A fronto-parietal network is mediating improvement of motor function related to repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation: A PET-H2O15 study.

Repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation (RPMS) is a focused and painless stimulation method, in which muscle contractions are elicited by depolarization of the terminal motor branches. Clinical-experimental investigations on different disorders of sensorimotor integration in the last decade have shown that RPMS can be used for the rehabilitation of motor functions after stroke. It is supposed that this therapeutic effect is based on the RPMS-induced proprioceptive inflow to the CNS.

Modulatory effect of repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation on skeletal muscle tone in healthy subjects: stabilization of the elbow joint.

To investigate the role of repetitive peripheral magnetic stimulation (RPMS) on the postural component of motor performances, the long-lasting modulatory effect of RPMS on the stabilization of the elbow joint was examined in 13 healthy subjects. The resistance against very slow passive movements in the relaxed state was recorded simultaneously with the electromyogram (EMG) of the forearm extensor and flexor muscles. The experiments show that RPMS performed on the forearm flexor muscles increased the degree of stabilization of the elbow joint, whereas RPMS on the forearm extensor muscles caused a decrease in stabilization.