... medicine andspinalcord injury / Laurance Johnston p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 1-932603-50-6 (alk paper) Spinalcord Wounds andinjuries Alternative treatment Spinalcord Wounds ... 2-4 Professor Zhu and associate Moyee Siu with scalp-acupuncture patient Alessandro (Photo taken by Laurance Johnston.) 24 ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE ANDSPINALCORD INJURY incredibly and literally electrifying, ... ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE ANDSPINALCORD INJURY biological understanding has been minimal because of difficulties measuring them and our emphasis on biochemical mechanisms ACUPUNCTURE AND SCI People with...
... feline lumbar spinalcord after complete thoracic spinalcord transection J Neurosci Re 2000, 60:219-230 Knikou M: Neural control of locomotion and training-induced plasticity after spinaland cerebral ... were carefully made into the spinal dura matter on left and right sides of the spinalcord The insertion was made at approximately the same segmental level of the spinalcord Reference electrodes ... Two parts of the spinal column (including vertebrae andspinal cord) were dissected, one part (1.5 cm) included the lesion epicenter and another part (~0.5 cm) included the recording area (to...
... spinalcord [85] andbrain [101], adult brain [102] andspinalcord [103], and a mixed population of NRPs and GRPs isolated from fetal spinalcord [104] Hematopoietic stem cells and marrow stromal ... fetal spinalcord were transplanted into normal and injured spinalcordand differentiated into neurons in normal cords But, the injured spinalcord niche restricted their differentiation and the ... National SpinalCord Injury Statistical Center: Spinalcord injury Facts and figures at a glance J SpinalCord Med 2005, 28:379-380 Ackery A, Tator C, Krassioukov A: A global perspective on spinal cord...
... (ANTERIOR SPINALCORD INJURY) LÀ GÌ ? Thương tổn thương tổn tủy sống không hoàn toàn, điển hình xảy chấn thương gấp (flexion injury), gây nên thương tổn tủy sống trước (anterior spinal cord) hay ... ? Thương tổn tủy sống bất thường quang tuyến (SCIWORA : spinalcord without radiologic abnormalities) Hội chứng trung tâm tủy (central cord syndrome) diện theo cách này, thuật ngữ thường sử dụng ... động mạch gai trước (anterior spinal injury) Trong trường hợp này, chức vận động cảm giác đau đớn nhiệt bị mất, cảm giác xúc giác nhẹ, cảm giác rung tư (vibration and position senses) bảo toàn...
... nghiên cứu NEXUS, công trình Canada (the Canadian C-Spine Rule for Radiography in Alert and Stable Trauma Patients) trình bày quy tắc định (decision rule), nhạy cảm việc phát thương tổn cột sống ... khỏi bị gấp hay duỗi thêm Những phương pháp trước chủ trương bất động dây (tape) hay bao cát (sandbag) 9/ LÀM SAO XÁC ĐỊNH NHỮNG BỆNH NHÂN NÀO CẦN PHẢI CHỤP CỘT SỐNG ? Bởi chấn thương cột sống ... (vertebral fractures) vài vấn đề điều trị khối tụ máu (hematoma) hay mảnh vỡ đĩa gian đốt sống ống sống (spinal canal) MRI hữu ích để đánh giá thương tổn tủy sống hay vỡ đĩa gian đốt sống (intervertebral...
... mean for patients with spinalcord injuries? Unfortunately they not lead immediately to a treatment applicable to injured humans However, grafting cells into injuries to suppress scarring and provide ... Bregman BS: Transplantation of embryonic spinal cord- derived neurospheres support growth of supraspinal projections and functional recovery after spinalcord injury in the neonatal rat J Neurosci ... CNTF-neutralizing antibody into a spinalcord containing transplanted neural stem cells reduced scarring and improved the outcome [12] The finding by Davies and colleagues [1] and in a previous publication...
... ithe rat brain II Mesencephalon rhombencephalon andspinalcord Exp Brain Res 1989, 78:164-173 Henderson J.T., Seniuk N.A., and Roder J.C Localization of CNTF immunoreactivity to neurons and astroglia ... the mesencephalon, rhombencephalon and the spinalcord Positive neurons were observed in the cerebellum and the subcortical regions as well as in the spinalcord CNTF-IR cells were first observed ... were seen running through the pons, medulla oblongata andspinalcord The spinalcord expressed a positive reaction both at the cervical and thoracic levels, with intense IR in the marginal zone...
... study of ultrasound examination of urinary tract performed on spinalcord injury patients with no urinary symptoms andspinalcord injury patients with symptoms related to urinary tract: findings ... Sett P, Parsons KF: Blunt trauma to scrotum in men with spinalcord injury after they had completed rehabilitation in a spinal unit SpinalCord 2001, 39:442-448 Competing interests The authors ... cyst is a very rare event and external drainage through a previous surgical scar has not been reported previously in persons with spinalcord injury This tetraplegic patient possibly sustained...
... pons and cervical spinalcord appeared notch-like due to the compression of the cyst The spinalcord was thickened from the pons to the thoracic spinalcord T10, and a syrinx was seen in the spinal ... herniates into the foramen magnum andspinal canal to compress the spinal cord, consequently causing blockage of the spinal canal and the stoppage of cerebral spinal flow, leading to syringomyelia ... the spinalcordand develop syringomyelia In 2000, Jain et al [19] reported one case of a giant posterior fossa arachnoid cyst extending into the spinal canal to compress the spinalcord and...
... clinically complete spinalcord injury SpinalCord 2004, 42:14-23 Wernig A, Nanassy A, Muller S: Maintenance of locomotor abilities following Laufband (treadmill) therapy in para- and tetraplegic ... tetraplegic persons: follow-up studies SpinalCord 1998, 36:744-749 Galvez JA, Reinkensmeyer DJ: Robotics for Gait Training After SpinalCord Injury Topics in SpinalCord Injury Rehabilitation 2005, ... Kinematics for without, passive, and therapist-controlled orthoses by speed Mean ± standard error and statistical results for kinematics of subjects with incomplete spinalcord injury who walked without-orthoses...
... subjects with spinalcord injury walking with (MA) and without (WO) manual assistance and control (C) subEMG profiles for EMG profiles for subjects with spinalcord injury walking with (MA) and without ... subjects with spinalcord injury walking with (MA) and without (WO) manual assistance and control (C) subEMG profiles for EMG profiles for subjects with spinalcord injury walking with (MA) and without ... subjects with spinalcord injury walking with (MA) and without (WO) manual assistance and control (C) subEMG profiles for EMG profiles for subjects with spinalcord injury walking with (MA) and without...
... Foundation (KK) and by NIH grants PO1 HD25938 and RO1 CA95287 (WBS) We thank Dr Michael Hefferan and Dr Viktor Skihar for help with spinalcord surgery, and Francisco Beltran and Adriana Charbono ... type (A) compared to NG2 null spinalcord (D) during the first postsurgery week However, better repair is seen in wild type (B and C) than in knockout (E and F) spinalcord at weeks after surgery ... Dissected spinalcord segments were immersed for 30 seconds in isopentane on dry ice and then stored at -80°C For RNA isolation, the frozen spinal cords were homogenized in liquid nitrogen, and total...
... Indomethacin appears to be effective in the primary prevention of HO after spinalcordinjuriesand after total hip arthroplasty and as secondary preventive measure after resection of HO lesions [25] ... In a study by Garland et al [11] three cases of HO of the knee were reported In only one of them the lesion was located in the posterior knee and none of the cases Espandar and Haghpanah Journal ... popliteal space HO In a report by Anderson and Lais [13] a large HO mass was excised from popliteal fossa of a 20 years old man 17 weeks after traumatic brain injury The patient had a fixed flexion...
... of spinalcord injury used in this study (a) Dorsal view of rat brainandspinalcord Dorsal column white matter on the right side was transected (shaded area) at the C1/C2 spinal level, and ... supportive of axon growth and promote pain when transplanted into spinalcordinjuries CNTF, LIF and IL-6 are known to be upregulated at sites of spinalcord injury [60-65] and it is possible that ... acute spinalcordinjuries [15,16] Interestingly, a reduction in allodynia and sprouting of CGRP+ c-fibers has been observed after transplantation of mixed NRP/GRP populations to spinalcord injuries...
... lamina, articular facet and pedicle Rongeur or pneumatic bur was used to enter the spinal canal and make the window of 7×3 ~ 15×5 ㎜ on the left lamina according to the size of spinal canal, cautiously ... Seo and Tchi-chou Nam was known to be a potent analgesic and thus it might abolish back pain Acupuncture could activate axonal regrowth and thus regeneration of destroyed axons in the spinalcord ... for more objective and accurate evaluation of spinalcord dysfunctions Several investigators have suggested that ambulation after spinal injury can be predicted by SEPs [11] Spinal trauma may...
... image at and weeks after spinalcord injury were not different among groups methods Balloon compresses the spinalcordand produces a closed injury without laminectomy at the injury site, and thus ... dogs with acute spinalcordinjuries Am J Vet Res 2001, 62, 1624-1628 29 Poncelet L, Michaux C, Balligand M Study of spinalcord evoked injury potential by use of computer modeling and in dogs with ... useful and powerful tool in detection and characterization of spinalcord pathology in animal models [3,38] T1 weighted images were considered most useful for assessment of cord swelling and hemorrhage,...
... as they felt it was potentially hazardous and the patient will have little to gain from it Accordingly, in absence of symptoms and tenderness, a "wait and see" policy was adopted Figure AP X ray ... level, were intact After discussion with the patient, a decision was made to perform urgent T4 and T5 corpectomies, decompression of the spinalcordand reconstruction of the vertebral bodies Anterior ... bone scans and CT scans of chest, abdomen and pelvis At the last follow-up visit-two years and six months postoperatively he was disease-free based according to the results Traditionally, spinal...
... Therapy Vol 11 No Constandil et al Figure Effect of IL-1β on spinalcord wind-up activity in propentofylline- and saline-treated normal and monoarthritic rats (NS, MS, NP and MP groups) (a) groups) ... potentiation to a train of stimuli (wind-up) in the spinal cords of both normal and monoarthritic rats, while not affecting the spinalcord transmission of spinal C-reflex to a single stimulus This observation ... Vol 11 No Constandil et al animal model of human rheumatoid arthritis, exhibited glial activation with increased mRNA and protein expressions of both IL-1 and TNFα in the spinalcord [2] Interestingly,...