Plasticity of Corticospinal Neural Control after Locomotor Training in Human Spinal Cord Injury
Figure 4
Cortical control of spinal reflex circuits after locomotor training in SCI. Mean size () of soleus H-reflex conditioned by common peroneal nerve stimulation at the conditioning-test interval of 3 ms, which reflects the amount of reciprocal Ia inhibition (RCI), soleus H-reflex conditioned by subthreshold TMS (TMS + H-reflex) at a C-T interval of 1 ms, and reciprocal inhibition conditioned with subthreshold TMS (TMS + RCI) at C-T intervals of 1 and 3 ms, respectively. Data are from the same patient. The size of the conditioned H-reflexes is expressed as a percentage of the mean amplitude of the control soleus H-reflex. Error bars indicate the SEM, and asterisks denote a statistically significant difference (paired -test, ) for conditioned H-reflexes recorded before and after 60 BWSTT sessions.
