Rehabilitative Training Promotes Rapid Motor Recovery but Delayed Motor Map Reorganization in a Rat Cortical Ischemic Infarct Model

Conclusions. Postinfarct rehabilitative training rapidly improves motor performance and movement quality after an ischemic infarct in motor cortex. However, training-induced motor improvements are not reflected in spared motor maps until substantially later, suggesting that early motor training after stroke can help shape the evolving poststroke neural network.

Source: Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair - May 28, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Nishibe, M., Urban, E. T. R., Barbay, S., Nudo, R. J. Tags: Basic Research Articles Source Type: research