Are There Trigger Points in the Spastic Muscles? Electromyographical Evidence of Dry Needling Effects on Spastic Finger Flexors in Chronic Stroke

The purpose was to examine the immediate effects of dry needling to spastic finger muscles in chronic stroke. Ten chronic stroke patients with spasticity in finger flexors participated in this experiment. Dry needling to the flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS) muscle was performed under ultrasound...

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Main Authors: Zhiyuan Lu, Amy Briley, Ping Zhou, Sheng Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
EMG
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2020.00078/full