TY - JOUR
T1 - A Review of Functional Electrical Stimulation Treatment in Spinal Cord Injury
AU - Luo, Shiyu
AU - Xu, Haonan
AU - Zuo, Yi
AU - Liu, Xiaogang
AU - All, Angelo H.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Johns Hopkins Welch Medical Library Informationist Mr. Robert Wright, MLS for providing his expertise and assistance with the PubMed database search. We would also like to acknowledge the contributions of Ms. Alisa Brown, Mr. Michael Pozin, Ms. Nausheen Tickoo, and Ms. Shichen Zhang for their efforts of preliminary literature search and data mining. The illustrations of this article were created with Biorender.com following an academic licensing agreement.
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PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Functional electrical stimulation (FES) has been widely adopted to elicit muscle contraction in rehabilitation training after spinal cord injury (SCI). Conventional FES modalities include stimulations coupled with rowing, cycling, assisted walking and other derivatives. In this review, we studied thirteen clinical reports from the past 5 years and evaluated the effects of various FES aided rehabilitation plans on the functional recovery after SCI, highlighting upper and lower extremity strength, cardiopulmonary function, and balder control. We further explored potential mechanisms of FES using the Hebbian theory and lumbar locomotor central pattern generators. Overall, FES can be used to improve respiration, circulation, hand strength, mobility, and metabolism after SCI.
AB - Functional electrical stimulation (FES) has been widely adopted to elicit muscle contraction in rehabilitation training after spinal cord injury (SCI). Conventional FES modalities include stimulations coupled with rowing, cycling, assisted walking and other derivatives. In this review, we studied thirteen clinical reports from the past 5 years and evaluated the effects of various FES aided rehabilitation plans on the functional recovery after SCI, highlighting upper and lower extremity strength, cardiopulmonary function, and balder control. We further explored potential mechanisms of FES using the Hebbian theory and lumbar locomotor central pattern generators. Overall, FES can be used to improve respiration, circulation, hand strength, mobility, and metabolism after SCI.
KW - Functional electrical stimulation
KW - Neuroplasticity
KW - Rehabilitation
KW - Spinal cord injury
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U2 - 10.1007/s12017-019-08589-9
DO - 10.1007/s12017-019-08589-9
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31916220
AN - SCOPUS:85077537083
SN - 1535-1084
VL - 22
SP - 447
EP - 463
JO - Neuromolecular medicine
JF - Neuromolecular medicine
IS - 4
ER -