The field of restorative neurology works to accentuate these new pathways and primarily focuses on the theory of the plasticity of an impaired nervous system.

Its main goal is to take a broken down and disordered nervous system and return it to a state of normal function.

Certain treatment strategies are used to augment instead of fully replace any performance of surviving and also improving the potential of motor neuron functions.

This rehabilitation of motor neurons allows patients a therapeutic approach to recovery opposed to physical structural reconstruction.

It is applied in a wide range of disorders of the nervous system, including upper motor neuron dysfunctions like spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and acquired brain injury including stroke, and neuromuscular diseases as well as for control of pain and spasticity.

Instead of applying a reconstructive neurobiological approach, i.e. structural modifications, restorative neurology relies on improving residual function.

While subspecialties like neurosurgery and pharmacology exist and are useful in diagnosing and treating conditions of the nervous system, restorative neurology takes a pathophysiological approach.

[citation needed] Scientists had previously thought that a human adult brain was fixed, meaning that it was unable to generate new cells, and was essentially unchangeable.

Karl Lashley worked with adult rhesus monkeys and found neurons to travel in different pathways in response to the same stimuli.

Researchers have also documented that tDCS has the potential to treat other various disorders such as depression, anxiety, and PTSD.Another parameter to take into account is the orientation of the electric field on the patient.

Although detecting any anatomy of the injured nervous system can be considered really difficult, this approach has made it possible to be able to track changes or improvements occurring in the neural injury.

- This study was adopted from their work with stroke rehab, that being said it is not known if the duration and dose of therapy is actually ideal for people with USCP.