Motor Point Stimulation in Spinal Paired Associative Stimulation can Facilitate Spinal Cord Excitability

Spinal associative stimulation: a non-invasive stimulation paradigm to modulate spinal excitability.

OBJECTIVE Repetitive, paired peripheral and transcranial stimulation targeting the cerebral cortex can increase cortical excitability, outlasting the stimulation period. It is unknown whether paired stimulation specifically targeting the spinal cord can modulate spinal excitability. We tested whether the H-reflex facilitation from a sub-threshold conditioning TMS pulse could modulate spinal exc...

Spinal Excitability Changes after Transspinal and Transcortical Paired Associative Stimulation in Humans

Paired associative stimulation (PAS) produces enduring neuroplasticity based on Hebbian associative plasticity. This study established the changes in spinal motoneuronal excitability by pairing transcortical and transspinal stimulation. Transcortical stimulation was delivered after (transspinal-transcortical PAS) or before (transcortical-transspinal PAS) transspinal stimulation. Before and afte...

Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)

Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)

Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)