Abstract:
:Foot drop is very common among people with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) and likely stems from SCI that disturbs the corticospinal activation of the ankle dorsiflexor tibialis anterior (TA). Thus, if one can recover or increase the corticospinal excitability reduced by SCI, motor function recovery may be facilitated. Here, we hypothesized that in people suffering from weak dorsiflexion due to chronic incomplete SCI, increasing the TA motor-evoked potential (MEP) through operant up-conditioning can improve dorsiflexion during locomotion, while in people without any injuries, it would have little impact on already normal locomotion. Before and after 24 MEP conditioning or control sessions, locomotor electromyography (EMG) and kinematics were measured. This study reports the results of these locomotor assessments. In participants without SCI, locomotor EMG activity, soleus Hoffmann reflex modulation, and joint kinematics did not change, indicating that MEP up-conditioning or repeated single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (i.e., control protocol) does not influence normal locomotion. In participants with SCI, MEP up-conditioning increased TA activity during the swing-to-swing stance transition phases and ankle joint motion during locomotion in the conditioned leg and increased walking speed consistently. In addition, the swing-phase TA activity and ankle joint motion also improved in the contralateral leg. The results are consistent with our hypothesis. Together with the previous operant conditioning studies in humans and rats, the present study suggests that operant conditioning can be a useful therapeutic tool for enhancing motor function recovery in people with SCI and other central nervous system disorders. NEW & NOTEWORTHY This study examined the functional impact of operant conditioning of motor-evoked potential (MEP) to transcranial magnetic stimulation that aimed to increase corticospinal excitability for the ankle dorsiflexor tibialis anterior (TA). In people with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI), MEP up-conditioning increased TA activity and improved dorsiflexion during locomotion, while in people without injuries, it had little impact on already normal locomotion. MEP conditioning may potentially be used to enhance motor function recovery after SCI.
journal_name
J Neurophysioljournal_title
Journal of neurophysiologyauthors
Thompson AK,Fiorenza G,Smyth L,Favale B,Brangaccio J,Sniffen Jdoi
10.1152/jn.00557.2018subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-03-01 00:00:00pages
853-866issue
3eissn
0022-3077issn
1522-1598journal_volume
121pub_type
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