Plastic changes in spinal synaptic transmission following botulinum toxin A in patients with post-stroke spasticity.

CONCLUSION: Botulinum toxin treatment induces synaptic plasticity at the Ia-motoneuron synapse in post-stroke paretic patients, which suggests that the effectiveness of botulinum toxin-type A in post-stroke rehabilitation might be partly due to its central effects.
PMID: 26424152 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine - October 3, 2015 Category: Rehabilitation Tags: J Rehabil Med Source Type: research