Browse the latest research summaries in the field of neurorehabilitation for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 • November 7, 2022
This protocol describes a prospective, mock-efficacy, dose exploration trial to test the feasibility of administering gabapentin in the acute setting as an intervention for neurorecovery after spinal ...
KEY FINDING: The study aims to assess the feasibility of recruiting the target population, delivering the drug treatment protocol, maintaining blinding, and retaining participants.
Front. Neurorobot., 2022 • November 10, 2022
This study presents the development and validation of the G-Exos, a wearable ankle exoskeleton designed to assist individuals with foot drop. The G-Exos utilizes a hybrid system combining active and p...
KEY FINDING: The G-Exos demonstrated assistive functionality for gait movement, specifically improving dorsiflexion amplitude in individuals with foot drop.
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2022 • November 23, 2022
The study aimed to determine if the ML foot placement strategy is impaired in people with iSCI compared to healthy controls, and investigated the relation between ML COM kinematics and ML foot placeme...
KEY FINDING: People with iSCI showed significantly higher foot placement deviation compared to healthy controls, independent of walking speed.
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 • November 24, 2022
The study details the user-centered design and development of TWIN-Acta, a novel control suite for the TWIN lower limb exoskeleton, aimed at gait rehabilitation for persons post-stroke. An interdiscip...
KEY FINDING: The TWIN-Acta system received overall good usability and acceptability ratings from clinical experts.
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2022 • November 23, 2022
This study investigated the feasibility of using feedback-controlled functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS) to maintain upright seated posture during a functional reaching task in individuals with...
KEY FINDING: Feedback-controlled stimulation reduced postural sway in two subjects, indicating improved seated stability during the reaching task.
NeuroRehabilitation, 2022 • January 1, 2022
This systematic review aimed to determine if cognitive measures are used as inclusion/exclusion criteria or outcome measures in robotic upper limb rehabilitation for stroke patients. The review of 81 ...
KEY FINDING: Seventy-three out of eighty-one studies used cognitive instruments for inclusion/exclusion criteria.
Animals, 2022 • December 18, 2022
Locomotor training is a strategy for functional neurorehabilitation that promotes relearning of stepping, leading to coordinated ambulation, applicable to various neurological diseases including spina...
KEY FINDING: Early treadmill training after SCI promotes muscle electromyography signal increase and modulates activity, correlating with motor recovery.
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2023 • January 7, 2023
This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the effects of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) on motor function recovery in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). The study found that NIBS a...
KEY FINDING: NIBS shows potential for improving lower extremity strength in SCI patients (SMD = 0.58, 95% CI = 0.02–1.14, P = 0.004).
Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2023 • April 27, 2022
This paper presents a mathematical model for SCI rehabilitation, incorporating micro-growth dynamics and mapping micro-growth to macro-motor function, based on rat experiment data and complex system t...
KEY FINDING: The constructed model can predict the trend in motor function improvement over time in a patient with complete SCI undergoing BCI-based rehabilitation.
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2023 • January 10, 2023
This study introduces and validates the Berlin Bimanual Test for Tetraplegia (BeBiTT), a new clinical assessment tool designed to evaluate bimanual task performance in individuals with tetraplegia. Th...
KEY FINDING: The BeBiTT demonstrated excellent interrater reliability and internal consistency, indicating that it can reliably assess bimanual task performance.