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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for motor recovery of the upper limb after stroke
Jitka Lüdemann-Podubecká1, Kathrin Bösl1, Dennis Alexander Nowak2
1HELIOS Klinik Kipfenberg, Kipfenberg, Germany.
Objective:
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation changes excitability of the motor cortex and it has hereby the potential to modulate changes in neural processing which impede motor recovery after stroke.
Methods:
This chapter presents an up-to-day systematic review of the treatment effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in promoting motor recovery of the affected upper limb after stroke.
Results:
Thirty-seven trials were included in the analysis. The selected studies involved a total of 871 stroke subjects. All stimulation protocols pride on interhemispheric imbalance model.
Interpretation:
rTMS enhances motor recovery of the affected hand after stroke; however, the data available until today is too limited to support its routine use.
