Browse the latest research summaries in the field of musculoskeletal medicine for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Spinal Cord Series and Cases, 2015 • July 9, 2015
This case report highlights a rare instance of coracoclavicular ligament ossification in a patient with complete paraplegia following a clavicular fracture. The ossification led to a synostosis betwee...
KEY FINDING: The patient exhibited ossification of the coracoclavicular ligament, leading to synostosis between the clavicle and scapula, a rare occurrence in paraplegia patients.
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2016 • December 7, 2016
This study introduces a novel nonlinear trimodal regression analysis methodology for quantifying muscle degeneration using radiodensitometric distributions from CT scans. The method was tested on a ra...
KEY FINDING: The study found significant qualitative differences in the shapes of HU distributions among healthy, elderly, and pathological subjects. The healthy subject had a high-amplitude muscle peak, while the elderly subject had a more pronounced fat peak.
Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, 2016 • January 1, 2016
This case report describes a 22-year-old man with a T6 spinal cord injury who developed Gorham's disease in his right clavicle, presenting as shoulder pain during acute rehabilitation. The patient was...
KEY FINDING: A patient with traumatic spinal cord injury developed Gorham's disease in the distal right clavicle, presenting as shoulder pain.
J Neurotrauma, 2017 • November 1, 2017
This study aimed to determine if testosterone (TE) prevents bone deficits post-spinal cord injury (SCI) and if finasteride (FIN) is required for TE-induced skeletal preservation. The study found that ...
KEY FINDING: TE+FIN prevented the chronic cancellous bone deficits and LABC muscle loss in SCI animals without inducing prostate enlargement.
Spinal Cord Series and Cases, 2017 • February 23, 2017
This study compared ultrasound (US) measures of muscle thickness with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures of muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) in six participants with incomplete spinal cord inj...
KEY FINDING: Significant positive linear correlations were found between MRI cross-sectional area and US muscle thickness in the gastrocnemius muscle.
Spinal Cord, 2004 • March 1, 2004
This study examined the relationship between lower extremity muscle strength and walking performance in persons with chronic ISCI. Lower extremity muscle strength, in particular that of hip flexors, h...
KEY FINDING: Hip flexors, extensors, and abductors showed the highest correlations with functional walking measures on both sides of the body.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 2005 • October 1, 2005
This study focused on developing and validating a reliable method for measuring bone mineral density (BMD) in the knees of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) using dual-energy x-ray absorptiome...
KEY FINDING: The study established a highly reliable method for analyzing knee BMD using DXA scans, indicated by high intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC).
Spine (Phila Pa 1976), 2006 • March 1, 2006
This study examined the effect of electrically induced muscle contractions on bone mineral density (BMD) decline in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Six individuals with complete paralysis u...
KEY FINDING: The percent decline in BMD for the trained tibia (~10%) was significantly less than the untrained tibia (~25%).
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2019 • January 1, 2019
This retrospective study evaluated the difference in overall complications between surgical and non-surgical management of lower limb fractures in patients with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). The s...
KEY FINDING: The overall rate of complications was significantly higher after non-surgical treatment (63.2%) compared to surgical treatment (25.0%).
Muscle Nerve, 2006 • July 1, 2006
This study investigated muscle fatigue in paralyzed soleus muscles after spinal cord injury (SCI) using a modified Burke fatigue protocol. The protocol demonstrated high between-day reliability. The s...
KEY FINDING: The between-day reliability of the modified Burke fatigue protocol was high (ICC = 0.96), indicating consistent measurements of muscle fatigue.