SWEAT2 study: effectiveness of trunk training on muscle activity after stroke. A randomized controlled trial.

Background: Trunk training after stroke is an effective method for improving trunk control, standing balance and mobility. The SWEAT study attempts to discover the underlying mechanisms leading to the observed mobility carry-over effects after trunk training.

Aim: A secondary analysis investigating the effect of trunk training on muscle activation patterns, muscle synergies and motor unit recruitment of trunk and lower limbs muscles, aimed to provide new insights in gait recovery after stroke.

Contraversive neglect? A modulation of visuospatial neglect in association with contraversive pushing.

Objective: Contraversive pushing (CP) is a neurologic disorder characterized by a lateral postural imbalance. Pusher patients actively push toward their contralesional side due to a misperception of the body's orientation in relation to gravity. Although not every patient with CP suffers from spatial neglect (SN), both phenomena are highly correlated in right-hemispheric patients.