Quadriceps strength and corticospinal excitability as predictors of disability after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

BG Pietrosimone, AS Lepley… - … rehabilitation, 2013 - journals.humankinetics.com
… of ACL-R (11 female, 4 male; 172 ± 9.8 cm, 70.4 ± 17.5 kg, 54.4 ± 40.9 mo postsurgery) were
included in this study. Corticospinal excitability … strength and corticospinal excitability were …

Corticospinal excitability can discriminate quadriceps strength indicative of knee function after ACLreconstruction

SG Bodkin, GE Norte, JM Hart - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… clinical threshold of corticospinal excitability able to discriminate … corticospinal excitability
would be associated with lower quadriceps strength, and that a threshold of cortical excitability

[HTML][HTML] Corticospinal tract structure and excitability in patients with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a DTI and TMS study

AS Lepley, MT Ly, DR Grooms, JM Kinsella-Shaw… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2020 - Elsevier
anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). Neurophysiological adaptations have been
identified in corticospinal tract excitability, … may influence motor recovery in ACLR patients. …

Assessment of quadriceps corticomotor and spinal-reflexive excitability in individuals with a history of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a systematic review …

JL Rush, NR Glaviano, GE Norte - Sports Medicine, 2021 - Springer
… This systematic review assessed quadriceps neural excitability inclusive of spinal-reflexive,
corticospinal, and intracortical pathways among individuals with a history of ACLR. …

Examination of corticospinal and spinal reflexive excitability during the course of postoperative rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

R Zarzycki, SM Morton, CC Charalambous… - Journal of Orthopaedic & …, 2020 - jospt.org
… reflexive and corticospinal excitability during rehabilitation after … Our results suggest that
corticospinal excitability in athletes … early after surgery and during the course of rehabilitation. …

Corticospinal and intracortical excitability differ between athletes early after ACLR and matched controls

R Zarzycki, SM Morton… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… , persist after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). … influenced by reduced
corticospinal excitability. The purpose … We quantified corticospinal (resting motor threshold, RMT; …

Corticospinal and intracortical excitability in individuals with anterior cruciate ligament injury and ligament reconstruction: a meta-analysis

MV de Brito Santana, AF Baptista - Physiotherapy Theory and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
… in corticospinal, and intracortical excitability assessed with … The results showed a reduction
in corticospinal excitability … patients with ACL injuries (ACLi) and/or ACL reconstruction (ACLr) …

Neural excitability alterations after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

BG Pietrosimone, AS Lepley… - Journal of athletic …, 2015 - meridian.allenpress.com
… spinal-reflex excitability and corticomotor excitability differed among ACL-R patients who
demonstrated acceptable levels of voluntary quadriceps activation (CAR ≥ 0.95), ACL-R …

Contributions of neural excitability and voluntary activation to quadriceps muscle strength following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

AS Lepley, HM Ericksen, DH Sohn, BG Pietrosimone - The Knee, 2014 - Elsevier
anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLr). Alterations in spinal-reflexive excitability,
corticospinal excitability … of spinal-reflexive excitability, corticospinal excitability and voluntary …

Corticomotor excitability associated with unilateral knee dysfunction secondary to anterior cruciate ligament injury

ME Héroux, F Tremblay - Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, 2006 - Springer
… group, like in healthy controls, no inter-limb asymmetry was detected in the amplitude of
facilitated MEPs, which indicates that changes in synaptic efficacy of corticospinal transmission …