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Sep 2026
Paired vagus nerve stimulation for post-stroke shoulder motor recovery: corticospinal–C5 motor network plasticity and rehabilitation applications
Shoulder motor impairment after stroke restricts reaching, self-care, balance reactions, and the use of mobility aids. Paired vagus nerve stimulation (pVNS), in which brief cervical vagus nerve stimulation is temporally coupled to task-specific rehabilitation, improves overall upper-extremity impairment and activity in...
Xiang Ji, Wei-Ran Zheng, Wei Ma et al.
· Frontiers in Neurology · 0 citations