Browse the latest research summaries in the field of research methodology & design for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Scientific Reports, 2023 • December 6, 2023
This meta-analysis examined the effectiveness of inhibiting the Nogo-A pathway in experimental SCI, finding an overall neurobehavioral improvement of 18.9%. Subgroup analyses revealed that factors suc...
KEY FINDING: Overall, inhibiting the Nogo-A pathway led to an 18.9% improvement in neurobehavioral outcomes across all studies.
Front. Rehabil. Sci., 2023 • December 12, 2023
This study explores the challenges in implementing patient participation in a rehabilitation unit, despite new insights from an action research project. It identifies competing discourses – biomedical...
KEY FINDING: Nurses found it difficult to incorporate patient perspectives due to organizational structures that prioritize task-based routines.
Am J Case Rep, 2023 • December 28, 2023
Charcot spine (CS), also called neuropathic arthropathy, appears to be triggered by damage to the nervous system impairing proprioception and pain/temperature sensation in the vertebral column. An 83-...
KEY FINDING: An 83-year-old male patient who had a history of a post-traumatic tetraplegia was diagnosed with CS after 3 years, after describing a recent progressive worsening of neuropathic pain.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2023 • January 1, 2023
This study describes the user-centred development of a dashboard to summarize and report information from wearable cameras worn by individuals with cSCI living in the community to clinicians. HCPs exp...
KEY FINDING: Clinicians found summaries to interpret graphs, hand posture and activity breakdowns, video snippets, patient notes, and time-series graphing of metrics useful for a dashboard reporting hand performance.
J. Clin. Med., 2024 • January 1, 2024
This study evaluated the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to predict the prognosis of patients with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) using acute-phase clinical data. The ANNs model outperform...
KEY FINDING: ANNs predicted the prognosis of patients with cervical SCI more accurately than MLR analysis (75.0% vs 31.3%).
The Neurohospitalist, 2024 • January 1, 2024
This case report highlights a rare presentation of spontaneous intramedullary hematomyelia in a 55-year-old male, initially mimicking transverse myelitis. The patient presented with progressive neurol...
KEY FINDING: Spinal cord hemorrhage is a rare cause of acute myelopathy that can mimic other conditions, such as transverse myelitis.
Diagnostics, 2024 • January 6, 2024
This retrospective cohort study investigated prognostic factors for clinical improvement in patients with complete spinal cord injury (SCI) during early neurological rehabilitation (ENR). The study in...
KEY FINDING: Higher initial motor scores (MS) on the AIS correlated with greater increases in the Barthel Index (BI) and SCIM scores during early neurological rehabilitation (ENR).
Frontiers in Neurology, 2024 • January 5, 2024
This study analyzes the research hotspots, frontiers, and development trends in the field of cell death after SCI. The bibliometric analysis reveals publication patterns, collaborations, and research ...
KEY FINDING: Research on cell death after SCI has grown significantly over the past 23 years, with China and the United States being the main contributors.
Spinal Cord, 2024 • January 29, 2024
The SwiSCI biobank is a platform for research within SwiSCI. It collects and processes serum, plasma, PBMCs, RNA, DNA, and urine from three rehabilitation centers. Between the SwiSCI biobank establish...
KEY FINDING: The SwiSCI study obtained informed consent from 524 individuals, with 315 agreeing to donate biospecimens to the biobank.
Frontiers in Neurology, 2024 • January 23, 2024
The study evaluated the Standing and Walking Assessment Tool (SWAT) for individuals with non-traumatic spinal cord injury or disease (NT-SCI/D) to describe its use, evaluate convergent validity, descr...
KEY FINDING: The SWAT has sufficient convergent validity and responsiveness for describing standing and walking recovery and communicating/monitoring rehabilitation progress among patients with NT-SCI/D.