Neurorehabilitation Research

KEY FINDING: Ventral epidural SCS effectively recruits upper-limb muscles, requiring lower current intensities and reliably following high-frequency trains.

KEY FINDING: Social and recreational activities were identified as the most pressing need among participants, highlighting the importance of community integration and leisure pursuits in their rehabilitation journey.

KEY FINDING: The BCI accuracy was between 70 and 90%.

KEY FINDING: Regular BCI training over 14 months improved the pilot's ability to produce distinguishable brain patterns for different commands.

KEY FINDING: Recovery of sensorimotor function after spinal cord injury largely depends on transmission in the corticospinal pathway.

KEY FINDING: Participants reported perceived benefits across International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) levels, including physical improvements like increased muscle strength and endurance, and psychological improvements such as increased confidence.

KEY FINDING: Integrating AI with neural rehabilitation can be highly impactful by enabling family members and carers (non-technically trained) to alter the programming of neural rehabilitation robotic setups, to actively get involved and intervene promptly at the point of care.

KEY FINDING: Transspinal-TMS PAS and locomotor training improved reflex inhibition during the swing phase when H-reflexes were grouped based on the TMS-targeted leg.

KEY FINDING: Functional electrical stimulation (FES) can be used to strengthen muscles, improve blood flow, and avoid progression of muscle atrophy in companion animals.

KEY FINDING: Decreased gray matter volume was observed in brain areas associated with motor and somatosensory functions, including the right paracentral lobule (PCL), left dorsal premotor cortex, and left superior parietal lobule (SPL).