Publications by authors named "Nathalia Serrano Lucena Amaral"
Cortical and spinal excitability changes after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation combined to physiotherapy in stroke spastic patients.
Rebeka Borba Costa Dos Santos Silvana Carla Barros Galvão Labibe Mara Pinel Frederico Nathália Serrano Lucena Amaral Maíra Izzadora Souza Carneiro
Neurol Sci
June 2019
Objective: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) has been used to treat post-stroke upper limb spasticity (ULS) in addition to physiotherapy (PT). To determine whether rTMS associated with PT modulates cortical and spinal cord excitability as well as decreases ULS of post-stroke patients.
Methods: Twenty chronic patients were randomly assigned to either the intervention group-1 Hz rTMS on the unaffected hemisphere and PT, or control group-sham stimulation and PT, for ten sessions.