Browse the latest research summaries in the field of neurorehabilitation for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Front. Hum. Neurosci., 2024 • September 10, 2024
The editorial highlights the global burden of TBI and SCI, emphasizing the need for innovative and effective neurorehabilitation interventions to improve functional recovery and social reintegration f...
KEY FINDING: Mild TBI survivors often experience psychiatric comorbidities like anxiety, depression, and PTSD, along with chronic pain and cardiovascular issues.
JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA, 2013 • February 1, 2013
This study provides a comprehensive quantitative description of motor deficits and compensations from the acute to the late chronic phase after C6 spinal cord hemisection. Permanent impairments were d...
KEY FINDING: A dramatic (50%), immediate and permanent loss of extensor force occurred in the forelimb but not in the hind limb of the injured side.
BioMed Research International, 2015 • January 5, 2015
The study investigated the therapeutic potential of skin-derived precursor cells (SKPs) in a rat model of cerebral ischemia, finding that SKPs transplantation improved behavioral measures of neurologi...
KEY FINDING: SKPs transplantation could improve the behavioral measures of neurological deficit.
Regenerative Therapy, 2025 • November 20, 2024
Spinal cord ischemia/reperfusion (IR) injury (SCII) can cause major autonomic, sensory, and motor damage and loss. The upregulation of Nrf2, a primary orchestrator of the oxidative stress response, ha...
KEY FINDING: Nrf2 and NFATC2 levels were reduced in PC12 cells after OGD/R treatment.
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2024 • December 3, 2024
This study investigated the impact of visual feedback type and physiotherapist-patient interaction level on patient engagement during robot-assisted gait training (t-RAGT) using eye-tracking (ET) and ...
KEY FINDING: The type of visual feedback significantly affects all eye-tracking metrics across monitor, physiotherapist, and surrounding areas of interest.
Sensors, 2022 • August 23, 2022
The study aimed to differentiate the effects of spinal cord injury (SCI) and central neuropathic pain (CNP) on effective connectivity during motor imagery of legs. Multichannel EEG was recorded during...
KEY FINDING: Subacute SCI appears to decrease connectivity from the supplementary motor area and increase connectivity to and from the secondary somatosensory cortex.
Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 • October 25, 2022
This case report presents the first published case of short-term spinal cord stimulation (st-SCS) in a patient with disorders of consciousness (DOC). The patient, a 35-year-old male with severe trauma...
KEY FINDING: The patient improved from a vegetative state/unwakefulness syndrome to an emergence from a minimally conscious state after st-SCS treatment.
Scientific Reports, 2022 • December 6, 2022
This study investigated the effect of assisted locomotion training plus noninvasive BMI and tactile feedback to induce partial neurological recovery for people with the most severe loss of sensory and...
KEY FINDING: Locomotion training alone can induce some level of neurological recovery in sensorimotor-complete SCI.
J Physiol, 2023 • April 1, 2023
This study provides the first evidence that bumetanide increases postsynaptic inhibition of the H-reflex after chronic SCI. By using in vivo intracellular recordings of motoneurons, we show that bumet...
KEY FINDING: A prolonged bumetanide treatment increases postsynaptic inhibition towards values observed in step-trained animals.
Brain Sci., 2023 • March 21, 2023
This mini-review and meta-analysis investigated the impact of music therapy (MT) on improving gait in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI). The meta-analysis reve...
KEY FINDING: MT shows positive effects on spatiotemporal aspects of gait in TBI, with medium effect improvements (Hedge’s g: 0.52).