Consideration of Dose and Timing When Applying Interventions After Stroke and Spinal Cord Injury.
Consideration of Dose and Timing When Applying Interventions After Stroke and Spinal Cord Injury.
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10.1097/npt.0000000000000165
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2017-07
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Lang CE
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Basso DM;Lang CE
Nearly four decades of investigation into the plasticity of the nervous system suggest that both timing and dose could matter. This paper provides a synopsis of our lectures at the IV STEP meeting which presented a perspective of current data on the issues of timing and dose for adult stroke and spinal cord injury motor rehabilitation. For stroke, the prevailing evidence suggests that greater amounts of therapy do not result in better outcomes for upper extremity interventions, regardless of timing. Whether or not greater amounts of therapy result in better outcomes for lower extremity and mobility interventions needs to be explicitly tested. For spinal cord injury, there is a complex interaction of timing post injury, task-specificity, and the microenvironment of the spinal cord. Inflammation appears to be a key determinant of whether or not an intervention will be beneficial or maladaptive, and specific re-training of eccentric control during gait may be necessary. To move beyond the limitations of our current interventions and to effectively reach nonresponders, greater precision in task-specific interventions that are well-timed to the cellular environment may hold the key. Neurorehabilitation that ameliorates persistent deficits, attains greater recovery and reclaims non-responders will decrease institutionalization, improve quality of life and prevent multiple secondary complications common after stroke and SCI.