Underlying Mechanisms and Neurorehabilitation of Gait after Stroke

Dear Colleagues,

As we are all aware, there have been numerous excellent studies focusing on gait neurorehabilitation after stroke. Persistent gait deficits, however, continue to result in debilitating disability and poor quality of life after stroke. Traditionally, gait training focused on peripherally administered treatments such as limb exercise, balance training, robotics, functional electrical stimulation (FES), treadmill training, and aerobics. Brain control of gait coordination is quite complex, and new discoveries of central nervous system (CNS) function are relevant to the development of more beneficial gait training methods.

In this Special Issue, we aim to gather emerging information elucidating potential mechanisms of recovery, both peripherally and in the CNS. We will include new approaches to gait training that may describe studies targeting treatment to the peripheral neuromuscular system, to the CNS, or to both simultaneously. For this scope, we will accept pre-clinical or clinical papers (that is, basic science or clinical science), randomized controlled trials testing efficacy of new methods, cohort studies testing the feasibility of new methods, and case reports with results supporting potential emerging mechanisms of gait recovery after stroke, including brain plasticity in response to gait rehabilitation, brain plasticity after stroke, and neuromodulation for gait rehabilitation.

Dr. Janis J. Daly
Guest Editor

Dr. Svetlana Pundik
Dr. Jessica McCabe
Co-Guest Editors

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