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... function is normal Spinal reflexes after cord injury Note: Almost one third of patients with spinal cord injury examined within 1–3 hours of injury have reflexes Plantar reflex after cord injury Distinguish ... alcohol ABC OF SPINAL CORD INJURY 25 Management of spinal cord injury in an acute specialised unit is associated with reduced mortality, increased neurological recovery, shorter length of stay ... Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury. Reproduced from International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury, revised 2000. American Spinal Injury Association/International...

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... spinal cord injury, with an American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) impairment scale classi- fication of C or D indicating motor incomplete lesions. In addition, the neurological level of injury ... following administration of tizanidine. Methods Subjects Forty individuals with incomplete spinal cord injured (37.6 ± 13.2 years) participated in this study. All subjects had chronic spinal cord injury of between ... understand the mechanisms of action of tizanidine on spasticity in spinal cord injured subjects with incomplete injury, by quantifying the effects of a single dose of tizanidine on ankle muscle...

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... with a cutoff frequency of 1.5 Hz. The three best recordings were selected from the five recordings made on the basis of best marker visibility in each recording. The mean of these three recordings ... International Standards for Neurological and Functional Classification of Spinal Cord Injury. American Spinal Injury Association. Spinal Cord 1997, 35:266-274. 26. Wu G, van der Helm F, Veeger HEJ, Makhsous ... epidemiology of spinal cord injury: what learns a worldwide literature survey? Spinal Cord 2006, 44:523-529. 4. Broeks JG, Lankhorst GJ, Rumping K, Prevo AJ: The long-term outcome of arm function...

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... nonstepping limb of humans with clinically complete spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord 2004, 42:14-23. 15. Wernig A, Nanassy A, Muller S: Maintenance of locomotor abil- ities following Laufband (treadmill) therapy ... persons: follow-up studies. Spinal Cord 1998, 36:744-749. 16. Galvez JA, Reinkensmeyer DJ: Robotics for Gait Training After Spinal Cord Injury. Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation 2005, 11:18-33. 17. ... JH: Clinical and quantitative evaluation of robotic-assissted treadmill walk- ing to retrain ambulation after spinal cord injury. Topics in Spi- nal Cord Injury Rehabilitation 2005, 11:1-17. 35....

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... with incomplete spinal cord injury. Methods: We tested six volunteers with incomplete spinal cord injury and six volunteers with intact nervous systems. Subjects with spinal cord injury walked ... manual assistance. Variability of the kinematic profile at the ankle joint decreased when subjects with spinal cord injury were EMG profiles for subjects with spinal cord injury walking with (MA) and ... or alter muscle activation profiles in relatively higher functioning spinal cord injury subjects. One advantage of manual assistance is that it allows spinal cord injury subjects to walk at faster...

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... evaluation of spinal cord dysfunctions. Several investigators have suggested that ambulation after spinal injury can be predicted by SEPs [11]. Spinal trauma may cause the reduction of conduction ... therapeutic effects of electroacupuncture and corticosteroid. Spinal cord injury w as induce d in tw enty healthy dogs (2.5~7 kg and 2~4 years) by foreign body insertion which compressed about 25% of spinal cord. There ... 97-101 Abstract 15) The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of electroacupuncture, corticosteroid, and combination of two treatments on ambulatory paresis due to spinal cord injury in dogs by...

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... head injury have also benefited from scalp acupunc- ture. The therapy appears most effective when initiated soon after the traumatic injury or neurological crisis. Spinal Cord Injury One of the ... and spinal cord injury / Laurance Johnston. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-932603-50-6 (alk. paper) 1. Spinal cord Wounds and injuries—Alternative treatment. 2. Spinal ... the front of your spine to its bottom. At this point, visualize your spinal cord as a hollow tube in which the ball of light enters. The ball then travels up the back or rear of this spinal tube,...

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... Surgeons American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers American College of Emergency Physicians American Congress of Rehabilitation ... PRACTICE GUIDELINE Spinal Cord Medicine Respiratory Management Following Spinal Cord Injury: A Clinical Practice Guideline for Health-Care Professionals Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine Administrative ... the Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine Clinical Practice Guideline: Prevention of Thromboem- bolism in Spinal Cord Injury, 2nd ed. (1999). Although data on the frequency of pleural effusion...

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... Cord Injury Statistical Center: Spinal cord injury. Facts and figures at a glance. J Spinal Cord Med 2005, 28:379-380. 2. Ackery A, Tator C, Krassioukov A: A global perspective on spinal cord injury ... and spinal cord injury. Neurosurgery 2000, 47:691-700. 20. Houle JD, Tessler A: Repair of chronic spinal cord injury. Exp Neurol 2003, 182:247-260. 21. Schwab ME: Repairing the injured spinal cord. ... site of injury, which contribute to the pathophysiology of sec- ondary injury [12,13] (5) depletion of energy metabolites leading to anaerobic metabolism at the site of injury and increasing of...

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... nerve injury [5]. Several studies demonstrated increased TNFα levels in DRG [6-8] and spinal cord [9-11] in different models of peripheral neuropathy. The main sources of cytokines in the spinal ... inflammation [58] and cell death following spinal cord injury [59]. Potentiation of AMPA induced currents by TNFα was reported also in the spinal cord DH neurons in control slices [13], while ... the recorded neurons, similar 10 There is now mounting evidence of TNFα importance in the processing of nociceptive information at the spinal cord level following peripheral nerve injury. ...

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... Tổn thương tuỷ sống (Spinal cord injury - SCI) Tổn thương tuỷ sống (Spinal cord injury - SCI) là tổn thương đối với các dây thần kinh trong ống ... hưởng đến khả năng của tủy sống trong việc gửi và nhận tín hiệu từ não Tổn thương tuỷ sống (Spinal cord injury - SCI) là tổn thương đối với các dây thần kinh trong ống tủy sống; phần lớn các trường ... "hàng rào máu não" (blood-brain- barrier) và "hàng rào máu tủy sống" (blood -spinal- cord barrier). Những hàng rào này do các tế bào trong các mạch máu ở CNS hình thành nên để...

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