To determine the effect of adding tDCS to walking training, a group of academic physiotherapists from Brazil compiled the available evidence from rigorous randomised controlled clincial trials that made this comparison.
By pooling the data from multiple alike studies statistically, these authors were able to show that the addition of tDCS to walking training produced negligible additional benefit over the effect of walking training alone on walking speed, step length or cadence (ie, number of steps per minute).
This is an important finding as tDCS has been effective in some other neurological conditions and many clinicians have considered also using it in people with Parkinson's disease.
> From: Nascimento et al., J Physiother 67 (2021) 190-196 . All rights reserved to Australian Physiotherapy Association. Click here for the online summary.
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