More reviews that tell us nothing except further research needed. This is exactly why everything in stroke needs to be destroyed and rebuilt with survivors in charge. This is so fucking simple:
1. Describe the problems exactly.
2. Write thousands of RFPs to researchers/MIT grads to solve those problems.
3. Fund them with foundation grants.
4. Write stroke rehab protocols based on the research.
5. Get the Nobel prize in medicine
Research hotspots and effectiveness of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in stroke rehabilitation
Ai-Hua Xu, Yong-Xin Sun
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
| Date of Submission | 20-Feb-2020 |
| Date of Decision | 28-Feb-2020 |
| Date of Acceptance | 05-Mar-2020 |
| Date of Web Publication | 11-May-2020 |
Yong-Xin Sun
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province
China
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/1673-5374.282269
Abstract |
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, as a relatively new type of rehabilitation treatment, is a painless and non-invasive method for altering brain excitability. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation has been widely used in the neurorehabilitation of stroke patients. Here, we used CiteSpace software to visually analyze 315 studies concerning repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for stroke rehabilitation from 1999 to 2019, indexed by Web of Science, to clarify the research hotspots in different periods and characterize the gradual process of discovery in this field. We found that four main points were generally accepted: (1) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation has a positive effect(So what? Where is the protocol then?) on motor function recovery in patients with subcortical stroke; (2) it may be more advantageous for stroke patients to receive low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in the unaffected hemispheres than to receive high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in affected hemisphere; (3) low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation has become a potential therapeutic tool for patients with non-fluent aphasia after chronic stroke for neurological rehabilitation and language recovery; and (4) there are some limitations to these classic clinical studies, such as small sample size and low test efficiency. Our assessment indicates that prospective, multi-center, large-sample, randomized controlled clinical trials are still needed to further verify (What exactly are you doing to get that further research accomplished?) the effectiveness of various repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation programs for the rehabilitation of stroke patients.
Keywords: data
visualization; motor recovery; rehabilitation; repetitive transcranial
magnetic stimulation; stroke; stroke rehabilitation; transcranial
magnetic stimulation
| How to cite this article: Xu AH, Sun YX. Research hotspots and effectiveness of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in stroke rehabilitation. Neural Regen Res 2020;15:2089-97 |
| How to cite this URL: Xu AH, Sun YX. Research hotspots and effectiveness of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in stroke rehabilitation. Neural Regen Res [serial online] 2020 [cited 2020 May 16];15:2089-97. Available from: http://www.nrronline.org/text.asp?2020/15/11/2089/282269 |
Chinese Library Classification No. R459.9; R493; R743
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