Browse the latest research summaries in the field of rehabilitation for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2016 • January 1, 2016
This case study evaluated the feasibility of combining abdominal functional electrical stimulation (AFES) with mechanical insufflation-exsufflation (MI-E) in a participant with tetraplegia. The study ...
KEY FINDING: AFES was successfully combined with MI-E at eight assessment sessions with a participant with tetraplegia.
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2017 • January 1, 2017
This case study investigated the impact of a 12-week periodized high-intensity interval training (HIT) program on a 42-year-old man with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). The participant showed substa...
KEY FINDING: The participant's peak aerobic power (WPeak) improved by approximately 45% within the first 6 weeks of training.
Muscle Nerve, 2014 • October 1, 2014
The study investigated the effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation–induced resistance exercise (NMES-RE) on intracellular signaling pathways involved in translation initiation and mechanical l...
KEY FINDING: SCI muscle appears to be more sensitive to muscle contraction even several years after the injury, possibly due to heightened compensatory mechanisms against muscle atrophy.
J Neural Eng, 2013 • June 1, 2013
The study investigated the effectiveness of cervical intraspinal microstimulation (ISMS) in reanimating paralyzed limbs following cervical spinal cord injury in rats. ISMS was delivered to the cervica...
KEY FINDING: ISMS evoked movements at a similar percentage of sites from spinally-intact animals and from animals tested at each of the three time points after spinal cord injury.
JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA, 2014 • August 1, 2014
This study evaluated the acute effects of serotonergic medications on locomotor performance in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI). The study found that administration of a 5HT antag...
KEY FINDING: Neither SSRIs nor 5HT antagonists improved locomotion in iSCI subjects.
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2016 • May 1, 2016
SCI-FI functional ability levels provide clinicians and patients with score ranges that distinguish important functional abilities and assign clinical meaning to SCI-FI scores. Three distinct clusters...
KEY FINDING: Cluster analyses identified three distinct groups that represent low, mid-range and high SCI-FI functional ability levels.
JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA, 2016 • September 15, 2016
This study investigated the effects of spatiotemporal epidural stimulation (SIM-eEmc) on locomotor function in spinal rats, finding that specific stimulation parameters can enable robust stepping patt...
KEY FINDING: Rats with spinal cord injuries showed improved stepping patterns after just six training sessions with spatiotemporal epidural stimulation (SIM-eEmc).
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2017 • May 1, 2017
A consensus-building workshop in 2006 aimed to develop a research agenda for SCI-related chronic pain, involving 39 stakeholders and using a modified Delphi approach to identify top research prioritie...
KEY FINDING: The top five pain research priorities identified were pain management and treatment, measurement tools, health services policy and advocacy, knowledge transfer, and mechanisms of pain.
Gait Posture, 2012 • May 1, 2012
This preliminary study characterized arm and leg coordination during treadmill walking in individuals with motor incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI). Outcomes in individuals with iSCI selecting fast ...
KEY FINDING: Individuals with iSCI showed a 1:1 arm:leg frequency ratio, regardless of walking speed, unlike controls who varied their ratio with speed.
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2017 • January 1, 2017
This study investigated the effects of a 12-month FES training program (strengthening and rowing) on muscle strength, muscle thickness, bone mineral density, and cardiorespiratory function in a 36-yea...
KEY FINDING: The participant experienced a 151% increase in average evoked torque in the quadriceps muscles after one year of FES training.