Browse the latest research summaries in the field of telehealth & digital health for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Trials, 2022 • July 22, 2022
The primary purpose of this study is to implement a home-based telehealth HIIT arm crank exercise training program among individuals with SCI and assess changes in body composition, cardiovascular fit...
KEY FINDING: The primary purpose of this study is to integrate a 16 week home-based telehealth HIIT arm crank exer-cise training program in individuals with SCI and assess changes in cardiometabolic health.
JMIR Formative Research, 2022 • August 19, 2022
This paper describes the 4-step intervention planning and development processes of an mHealth intervention to increase the quantity and quality of physical activity participation among individuals wit...
KEY FINDING: The study identified issues to be addressed when designing intervention objectives and features.
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2019 • January 1, 2019
This study reports on the iterative redesign, feasibility, and usability of the Comprehensive Mobile Assessment of Pressure (CMAP) system’s mobile app used by Veterans with SCI. The multi-staged, mixe...
KEY FINDING: Veterans found the CMAP system helpful for skin ulcer prevention and monitoring.
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2020 • January 1, 2020
The study assessed the feasibility of a self-management mobile app for individuals with SCI during inpatient rehabilitation and after community discharge. Feasibility indicators were strong during inp...
KEY FINDING: Recruitment targets were exceeded, and the app was usable for individuals with varying levels of injury during inpatient rehabilitation.
BMJ Open, 2019 • September 1, 2019
This study protocol outlines the development of a self-guided, web-based exercise intervention (SPIN) for treating shoulder pain in people with spinal cord injury (SCI). The intervention will be devel...
KEY FINDING: The study will identify key elements for an effective web-based exercise intervention through systematic and narrative reviews of existing literature.
PLoS ONE, 2019 • October 15, 2019
This pilot study investigated the use of a mobile health-based physical activity (PA) measurement system to track PA levels of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) in the community and provide th...
KEY FINDING: The study found that eleven participants (69.0%) had higher light- and/or moderate-intensity PA during PA Feedback with JITAI compared to the baseline.
Frontiers in Neurology, 2019 • November 1, 2019
This study developed an energy expenditure (EE) estimation model for ambulatory individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) using wearable sensor data. The developed model uses the updated H...
KEY FINDING: The best EE estimation model comprised the estimation of resting EE using the updated Harris-Benedict equation, classifying activities using a k-nearest neighbor algorithm, and applying a multiple linear regression-based EE estimation model for each activity class.
JMIR Rehabil Assist Technol, 2019 • December 6, 2019
This paper described the process and outcome of using a participatory action research (PAR) approach to translate a theory-based, telephonic intervention that targeted increased participation in regul...
KEY FINDING: The substantially redesigned website offers an easier-to-navigate platform for people with SCI with greater functionality that delivers information using a module format with less text, short video segments, and presents more resources.
Spinal Cord, 2020 • July 1, 2020
This study examined the performance of five sets of published EE predictive equations for MWUs using an independent dataset from 29 MWUs with SCI. The out-of-sample validation showed that these predic...
KEY FINDING: None of the five sets of predictive equations demonstrated equivalence within 20% of the criterion measure based on an equivalence test.
Sensors, 2020 • April 28, 2020
This study investigated the feasibility of ICT-based health care services for individuals with SCI, focusing on home-based interventions and data collection. The results showed improvements in several...
KEY FINDING: The ICT-based health care management service showed a favorable expected level of outcome for individuals with SCI.