Background Non-invasive magnetic stimulation is an emerging technology to stimulate nerve fibres and muscles, mainly used in rehabilitation to treat people with disabilities or paralysis due to e.g. strokes. The mainstream method to treat these kinds of injuries is electrical stimulation. Electrical stimulation, however, applies a current directly through the skin of the patient, i.e. the stimu...

[Purpose] The effectiveness of neuromuscular electrical stimulation in the rehabilitation of swallowing remains controversial. This study compared the effectiveness of neuromuscular electrical stimulation and thermal tactile oral stimulation, a traditional swallowing recovery treatment, in patients with sub-acute dysphagia caused by stroke. [Subjects and Methods] Subjects of the present study w...

To evaluate the effects of electrical stimulation on denervated muscles in spinal cord injured humans, the EU Project RISE was started in 2001. The aims of this project are: to design and build sufficient stimulators; to develop stimulation protocols by means of mathematical models, animal experiments, and practice in humans with denervated lower limbs; to develop examination methods and device...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to compare the cost-effectiveness of various treatment modalities for hemiplegic shoulder pain. DESIGN A stage II economic evaluation. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Incremental cost effectiveness ratio of P-NMES, compared to slings and anti-inflammatory injections. RESULTS The incremental cost effectiveness ratio (ICER) of p-NMES, compared to anti-inflamm...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the synergic effects of mirror therapy and neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) for hand function in stroke patients. METHOD Sixty patients with hemiparesis after stroke were included (41 males and 19 females, average age 63.3 years). Twenty patients had NMES applied and simultaneously underwent mirror therapy. Twenty patients had NMES applied only, and twenty ...

Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is used in clinical applications and basic neuroscience research. Although its behavioral effects are evident from prior reports, current understanding of the mechanisms that underlie these effects is limited. We used motion perception, a percept with relatively well known properties and underlying neural mechanisms to investigate tACS mechani...

BACKGROUND To investigate the effect of pelvic floor Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) Therapy in improving endometrial thickness in women with thin endometrium. METHODS 41 patients undergoing assisted reproduction with a thin endometrium (less than or equal to7 mm) were recruited and advised to go for a pelvic floor NMES in frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycle. PHENIX Neuromuscular ...

We have investigated the psychophysical properties of low-frequency hearing, both before and after implantation, to see if we can account for the benefit to speech understanding and melody recognition of adding acoustic stimulation to electric stimulation. In this paper, we review our work and the work of others and describe preliminary results not previously published. We show (a) that it is p...

This paper deals with a new electrotherapeutic method for use in physiatric treatment. The micro-pulse stimulation is based on the combination of three electrotherapeutic methods: burst therapy, high-voltage pulsed current therapy, and microelectrostimulation. Micro-pulse stimulation is special for its unusual configuration of pulse parameters; high-voltage electric pulses are safely used as a ...

OBJECTIVES Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a neuromodulatory technique that delivers low-intensity currents facilitating or inhibiting spontaneous neuronal activity. tDCS is attractive since dose is readily adjustable by simply changing electrode number, position, size, shape, and current. In the recent past, computational models have been developed with increased precision wi...