OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Somatosensory and Motor Research is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Randomised trial of virtual reality gaming and physiotherapy on balance, gross motor performance and daily functions among children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy	21
Investigation of the relationship between physical activity, kinesiophobia and fear of falling in older adults with chronic pain	11
Acute effect of kinesiology taping on muscle strength, tissue temperature, balance, and mobility in female patients with osteoarthritis of the knee	8
Effects of cadence-compatible melodic rhythmic auditory stimulation implementation on gait in patients with Parkinson’s disease	7
Psychophysical principles of discrete event-driven vibrotactile feedback for prostheses	7
Greater functional activation during galvanic vestibular stimulation is associated with improved postural stability: a GVS-fMRI study	7
Acute effects of instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization technique on pain and joint position error in individuals with chronic neck pain: a double-blind, randomized controlled trial	6
Effect of sensory stimulation applied under the great toe on postural ability in patients with fibromyalgia	6
Does somatosensory feedback from the plantar foot sole contribute to verticality perception?	6
Clinical and laboratory measures of balance and comparison of balance performances according to postural instability and gait disorders in individuals with Parkinson’s disease	6
Rhythmic movement and rhythmic auditory cues enhance anticipatory postural adjustment of gait initiation	5
Association of disease duration and sensorimotor function in type 2 diabetes mellitus: beyond diabetic peripheral neuropathy	5
The role of enhanced plantar-surface sensory feedback on lower limb EMG during planned gait termination	5
Factors related to phantom limb pain and its effect on quality of life	5
The effect of motor imagery training on individuals with unilateral cerebral palsy on motor imagery ability, functional mobility and muscle activity	4
Sensory processing patterns of young adults with preterm birth history	4
Effectiveness of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation and myofascial release techniques in patients with subacromial impingement syndrome	4
Intra-operative neurophysiological monitoring in patients with dystrophic neurofibromatosis type 1 scoliosis	4
Effect of sensorimotor training on spatiotemporal parameters of gait among middle and older age adults with diabetic peripheral neuropathy	4
The effect of a textured insole on anticipatory postural adjustments	4
The effects of physical training versus combined action observation and motor imagery in conjunction with physical training on upper-extremity performance	4
Neuroplasticity changes in knee osteoarthritis (KOA) indexed by event-related desynchronization/synchronization during a motor inhibition task	4
Plantar sensation, plantar pressure, and postural stability alterations and effects of visual status in older adults	4
Painful cold-heat segmental pulse stimulation provokes the thermal pain illusion	4
The effect of elastic therapeutic taping and rigid taping on pain, functionality, and tissue temperature in lumbar radiculopathy: a randomized controlled study	4

Interoceptive attentiveness and autonomic reactivity in pain observation	3
The effects of progressive neuromuscular exercise program and taping on muscle strength and pain in patellofemoral pain. A randomized controlled blind study	3
Auditory and visual distraction improve muscle endurance: a randomised controlled trial	3
Somatosensory temporal discrimination threshold changes during motor learning	3
Effects of neural mobilizations through movement representation techniques for the improvement of neural mechanosensitivity of the median nerve region: a randomized controlled trial	3
Investigation of non-motor symptoms, balance, muscle strength, and functional mobility in patients with parkinson’s disease	3
The hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channel currents contribute to oxaliplatin-induced hyperexcitability of DRG neurons	3
Reciprocal roles of joint position error, visual dependency and subjective perception in cervicogenic dizziness	3
Focal unilateral mechanical lesion in barrel cortex impairs rat’s abilities to discriminate textures	3
An investigation of neck pain in older adults, and its relation with shoulder position sense and upper extremity function	3
Idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome and de Quervain’s tenosynovitis: is there an association?	3
Wnt16 protects chondrocytes from lumbar facet joint osteoarthritis through the Wnt/β-catenin pathway in low back pain patients	3
E3 ubiquitin ligase Triad1 promotes neuronal apoptosis by regulating the p53-caspase3 pathway after spinal cord injury	3
Muscle strength, balance and upper extremity function are not predictors of cervical proprioception in healthy young subjects	3
Association between executive and physical functions in people with Parkinson’s disease	3
Secondary somatosensory area is involved in vibrotactile temporal-structure processing: MEG analysis of slow cortical potential shifts in humans	3
Contribution of the sensory innervation of the spine in low back pain: review and clinical commentary	3
Effectiveness of pregabalin treatment for trigger points in patients with comorbid myofascial pain syndrome and fibromyalgia syndrome: a randomized controlled trial	3
The prolonged effect of Kinesio Taping on joint torque and muscle activity	3
Acute effects of contrast bath on sympathetic skin response in patients with poststroke complex regional pain syndrome	3
Effects of ischemic compression and instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization techniques in trigger point therapy in patients with rotator cuff pathology: randomized controlled study	3
Changes in brain morphometry after motor rehabilitation in chronic stroke	3