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Functional Electrical Stimulation and Its Use During Cycling for the Rehabilitation of Individuals with Stroke

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Stroke disease involves an increasing number of subjects due to the aging population. In clinical practice‚ the presence of widely accessible rehabilitative interventions to facilitate the patients’ motor recovery‚ especially in the early stages after injury when wider improvement can be gained‚ is crucial to reduce social and economical costs. The functional electrical stimulation (FES) has been investigated as a tool to promote locomotion ability in stroke patients. Particular attention was given to FES delivered during cycling‚ which is recognized as a safe and widely accessible way to provide a FES-based rehabilitative intervention in the most impaired subjects. In this chapter the neurophysiological basis of FES and its potential correlates to facilitate the long-term reorganization at both cortical and spinal level have been discussed. A discussion on clinical evidence and possible future direction is also proposed.

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  1. NEARLab, Department of Electronic, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Elisabetta Peri, Simona Ferrante & Alessandra Pedrocchi

  2. Valduce Hospital, Villa Beretta Rehabilitation Center, Como, Italy

    Eleonora Guanziroli & Franco Molteni

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Peri, E., Guanziroli, E., Ferrante, S., Pedrocchi, A., Molteni, F. (2018). Functional Electrical Stimulation and Its Use During Cycling for the Rehabilitation of Individuals with Stroke. In: Sandrini, G., Homberg, V., Saltuari, L., Smania, N., Pedrocchi, A. (eds) Advanced Technologies for the Rehabilitation of Gait and Balance Disorders. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72736-3_21

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