Browse the latest research summaries in the field of neurorehabilitation for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2007 • July 10, 2007
The study introduces a novel moveable clinical device intended for functional rehabilitation of strength and balance, allowing mediolateral APAs to occur across a wide range of gravity-like loads, whi...
KEY FINDING: Combined strength and balance training in a tilted virtual environment improves upright balance function and muscular strength.
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2007 • August 21, 2007
The purpose of this study was to determine how manual assistance affected lower limb electromyographic activity and joint kinematics in higher-level subjects with incomplete spinal cord injury during ...
KEY FINDING: Manual assistance does not significantly alter muscle activation profiles in individuals with spinal cord injury during treadmill training.
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2006 • January 1, 2006
The study examines robotic rehabilitation and assessment of spinalized rats using robot-applied forces at the pelvis as a prelude to a neurorobotic brain-machine interface (BMI). The system applies an...
KEY FINDING: Robotic training led to significant improvements in treadmill locomotor stepping over time in adult spinalized rats.
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2007 • November 29, 2007
The study characterized impairments in voluntary arm movement associated with spasticity in stroke and SCI subjects. Impairments in arm voluntary movement were similar in the two spastic groups, altho...
KEY FINDING: Most kinematic and kinetic parameters changed significantly in paretic as compared to normal arms in stroke subjects.
J Neurol Phys Ther, 2017 • July 1, 2017
This paper discusses the importance of timing and dose in motor rehabilitation for stroke and spinal cord injury (SCI). For stroke, the authors found that greater amounts of therapy do not necessarily...
KEY FINDING: In stroke rehabilitation, larger amounts of upper extremity therapy did not result in better outcomes more than 6 months post-stroke.
JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA, 2017 • September 15, 2017
This study investigated the effect of long-term paired associative stimulation (PAS) on hand motor output in patients with chronic tetraplegia, comparing it to peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS). The ...
KEY FINDING: Long-term PAS resulted in significant improvement in hand motor scores compared to PNS alone in tetraplegic patients.
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2017 • June 5, 2017
This systematic review examined the use of markerless motion capture systems (MCS) in neurological rehabilitation, focusing on their application, target populations, training content, and efficacy. Th...
KEY FINDING: Microsoft Kinect is the most frequently used motion capture system in neurological rehabilitation.
Hum Brain Mapp, 2009 • March 1, 2009
This study investigates the feasibility and reliability of using functional electrical stimulation (FES) in an MRI environment to observe brain activity. The experiment involved alternating stimulatio...
KEY FINDING: FES stimulation reliably activates the sensorimotor network, including the contralateral primary motor cortex, somatosensory cortex, and premotor cortex.
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2008 • April 26, 2008
The study aimed to investigate the biomechanics of the hip, knee, and ankle during progressive resistance cycling in SCI subjects to detect and measure muscle fatigue, hypothesizing that knee power ou...
KEY FINDING: Ankle and knee power outputs decreased with increasing resistance, while hip power output increased.
Exp Neurol, 2008 • June 1, 2008
This study investigates the effect of human adult bone marrow-derived somatic cells (hABM-SC) on stroke recovery in rats. hABM-SC treatment led to improved forelimb function on a skilled motor task, i...
KEY FINDING: hABM-SC therapy after stroke in rats led to significant functional recovery in a skilled forelimb task.