Therapeutic Lower Extremity Power Training Alters the Sensorimotor Cortical Activity of Individuals With Cerebral Palsy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To utilize magnetoencephalographic (MEG) brain imaging to examine potential changes in sensorimotor cortical oscillations after therapeutic power training in individuals with cerebral palsy (CP).

Design

Cohort.

Setting

Academic medical center.

Participants

Individuals with CP (N=11; age=15.9±1.1 years; Gross Motor Function Classification System I- III) and neurotypical controls (NTs; N=16; age=14.6±0.8 years).

Interventions

Participants with CP underwent 24 (8 weeks; 3 days a week) sessions of high-velocity lower extremity power training on a leg press. The NTs underwent single baseline MEG assessments.

Main outcome measures

Pre-post bilateral leg press 1-repetition maximum and peak power production were used to assess the muscular perfo

SUBMITTER: Busboom M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8904886 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature