Paired vagus nerve stimulation for post-stroke shoulder motor recovery: corticospinal–C5 motor network plasticity and rehabilitation applications
Xiang Ji, Weiran Zheng, Wei Ma, Jiaying Liu, Guizhi Xu · 2026
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Xiang Ji and co-authors review whether stimulating a nerve in the neck, timed with training, can restore shoulder movement after stroke, in a paper from 2026. Shoulder weakness limits reaching, self-care, and the use of walking aids. The method pairs brief pulses to the vagus nerve with task practice.
Trials show the pairing improves overall arm function in some people with lasting stroke effects, and it has gained approval for arm impairment. Its effect on the shoulder alone is less clear. The review reads the method through a network that links brain movement areas to a neck spinal segment and then to shoulder muscles. Animal work shows timed pulses reshape movement maps in the brain. The authors set out how shoulder-specific trials should be run.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xiang Ji, Weiran Zheng, Wei Ma, Jiaying Liu, Guizhi Xu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |