Browse the latest research summaries in the field of rehabilitation for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 2016 • October 1, 2016
This study investigated the relationship between time-to-rehabilitation (TTR) following traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) and rehabilitation outcomes at discharge and 1-year post injury, hypothesizin...
KEY FINDING: A longer time-to-rehabilitation (TTR) was associated with a lower FIM motor score at discharge, indicating worse functional status.
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2015 • July 1, 2015
The study evaluated the reliability and validity of the CUE-T in individuals with chronic tetraplegia. The CUE-T demonstrated excellent test-retest reliability and good-excellent construct validity, c...
KEY FINDING: The CUE-T demonstrated excellent test-retest reliability, with high intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) for total, right, and left side scores.
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2016 • January 1, 2016
The study aimed to identify changes in psychosocial factors, relationships between these factors, and significant predictors of resilience in adults with SCI during inpatient rehabilitation and at 3-m...
KEY FINDING: Resilience appears to be stable from inpatient to 3-month follow-up.
Muscle Nerve, 2017 • February 1, 2017
This study investigated the effects of different durations of treadmill training on muscle properties in mice with incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). The key finding was that 9 weeks of treadmill tr...
KEY FINDING: Muscle fiber type composition did not change with training in SCI animals, indicating limited effects on muscle fiber type composition from treadmill training.
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr., 2016 • March 1, 2016
The study investigated the association between vitamin D status and nonspecific musculoskeletal pain in acute rehabilitation unit (ARU) patients. The results showed an inverse relationship between ser...
KEY FINDING: Serum 25(OH)D level was inversely associated with nonspecific musculoskeletal pain.
J Bone Miner Res, 2014 • January 1, 2014
The study examined the association between circulating adiponectin or leptin levels and BMD based on the ability to walk in chronic SCI. The findings suggest that for subjects with chronic SCI, walkin...
KEY FINDING: There was a significant inverse association between adiponectin and BMD in wheelchair users independent of body composition.
J. Phys. Ther. Sci., 2014 • October 1, 2014
This study aimed to determine the immediate effects of Lokomat versus Ergo_bike training on the Probe Reaction Time (P-RT) and walking ability of patients with incomplete spinal cord injuries (iSCI). ...
KEY FINDING: The Lokomat group showed a significant decrease in Probe Reaction Time (P-RT) after the intervention.
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2014 • October 14, 2014
The study aimed to improve adaptive ERD-based BCIs for individuals with severe motor impairment by incorporating non-motor tasks. Offline analyses of EEG data from individuals with SCI or stroke revea...
KEY FINDING: Auto-selecting a user specific class combination of motor-related and non motor-related mental tasks during initial auto-calibration (Auto-AdBCI) significantly (p < 0.01) improved classification performance compared to an adaptive ERD-based BCI that only used motor imagery tasks (SMR-AdBCI; average accuracy of 75.7 vs. 66.3%).
Neural Regeneration Research, 2014 • September 1, 2014
Virtual reality training is a technology that simulates a three-dimensional virtual world on a computer and enables the generation of visual, audio, and haptic feedback for the full immersion of users...
KEY FINDING: Virtual reality training activates the prefrontal, parietal cortical areas and other motor cortical networks, potentially aiding in the reconstruction of neurons in the cerebral cortex.
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2014 • November 15, 2014
This paper investigates the possibility of building decoders for seven upper-limb analytic movements using pre-movement EEG correlates with healthy subjects and tests the decoders in a clinical enviro...
KEY FINDING: Movement intention can be decoded from EEG signals for seven different upper-limb analytic movements.