Short term effects of anodal cerebellar vs. anodal cerebral transcranial direct current stimulation in stroke patients, a randomized control trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Balance and gait impairments are major motor deficits in stroke patients that require intensive neuro-rehabilitation. Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation is a neuro-modulatory technique recently used in stroke patients for balance and gait improvement. Majority of studies focusing on tDCS have assessed its effects on cerebral motor cortex and more recently cerebellum as well but to our best knowledge the comparison of stimulating these two regions in stroke patients is not investigated so far.

Objective

The current study aimed to compare the effect of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation on cerebellar and cerebral motor cortex M1 in stroke patients.

Materials and methods

This double-blinded, parallel, randomized, sham controlled trial i

SUBMITTER: Qurat-Ul-Ain 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9730515 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature