Treatments for Neurological Gait and Balance Disturbance: The Use of Noninvasive Electrical Brain Stimulation

Figure 5

Proposed neural mechanism for combining tDCS with physical therapy. Physical therapy induces cortical changes that are thought to underlie the functional improvement in motor function. tDCS alters cortical excitability, perhaps reducing the threshold for these changes to occur when combined with physical therapy, resulting in greater cortical plasticity and better motor outcomes than physical therapy alone.