Combining Multiple Types of Motor Rehabilitation Enhances Skilled Forelimb Use Following Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats

Conclusions. The current study has provided evidence that individual rehabilitation strategies shown to be beneficial in animal models of stroke are not similarly sufficient to enhance behavioral outcome in a model of TBI. Motor rehabilitation strategies for TBI patients may need to be more intense and varied. Future basic science studies exploring the underlying mechanisms of combined rehabilitation approaches in TBI as well as clinical studies comparing rehabilitation approaches for stroke versus TBI would prove fruitful.

Source: Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair - October 20, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Adkins, D. L., Ferguson, L., Lance, S., Pevtsov, A., McDonough, K., Stamschror, J., Jones, T. A., Kozlowski, D. A. Tags: Basic Research Articles Source Type: research