Browse the latest research summaries in the field of rehabilitation for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2017 • May 1, 2017
The study aimed to describe the utilization, accessibility, and satisfaction of primary and preventative health-care services of community-dwelling individuals with SCI. The majority of participants r...
KEY FINDING: Ninety-nine percent of respondents had a healthcare visit in the past 12-months with primary care physicians (79%), with SCI physiatrists (77%) and urologists (50%) being the most utilized.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 2016 • October 1, 2016
This study investigated the relationship between time-to-rehabilitation (TTR) following traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) and rehabilitation outcomes at discharge and 1-year post injury, hypothesizin...
KEY FINDING: A longer time-to-rehabilitation (TTR) was associated with a lower FIM motor score at discharge, indicating worse functional status.
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2015 • July 1, 2015
The study evaluated the reliability and validity of the CUE-T in individuals with chronic tetraplegia. The CUE-T demonstrated excellent test-retest reliability and good-excellent construct validity, c...
KEY FINDING: The CUE-T demonstrated excellent test-retest reliability, with high intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) for total, right, and left side scores.
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr., 2016 • March 1, 2016
The study investigated the association between vitamin D status and nonspecific musculoskeletal pain in acute rehabilitation unit (ARU) patients. The results showed an inverse relationship between ser...
KEY FINDING: Serum 25(OH)D level was inversely associated with nonspecific musculoskeletal pain.
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2016 • January 1, 2016
The study aimed to identify changes in psychosocial factors, relationships between these factors, and significant predictors of resilience in adults with SCI during inpatient rehabilitation and at 3-m...
KEY FINDING: Resilience appears to be stable from inpatient to 3-month follow-up.
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2015 • January 1, 2015
The study aimed to identify factors associated with health-care utilization during the first year after inpatient rehabilitation in individuals with traumatic spinal cord injury. Health-care utilizati...
KEY FINDING: Individuals with greater neurological impairment (C1–4 AIS A–C) or those not discharged home after inpatient rehabilitation had higher health-care utilization in the first year following discharge.
Muscle Nerve, 2017 • February 1, 2017
This study investigated the effects of different durations of treadmill training on muscle properties in mice with incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). The key finding was that 9 weeks of treadmill tr...
KEY FINDING: Muscle fiber type composition did not change with training in SCI animals, indicating limited effects on muscle fiber type composition from treadmill training.
J Bone Miner Res, 2014 • January 1, 2014
The study examined the association between circulating adiponectin or leptin levels and BMD based on the ability to walk in chronic SCI. The findings suggest that for subjects with chronic SCI, walkin...
KEY FINDING: There was a significant inverse association between adiponectin and BMD in wheelchair users independent of body composition.
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2014 • October 14, 2014
The study aimed to improve adaptive ERD-based BCIs for individuals with severe motor impairment by incorporating non-motor tasks. Offline analyses of EEG data from individuals with SCI or stroke revea...
KEY FINDING: Auto-selecting a user specific class combination of motor-related and non motor-related mental tasks during initial auto-calibration (Auto-AdBCI) significantly (p < 0.01) improved classification performance compared to an adaptive ERD-based BCI that only used motor imagery tasks (SMR-AdBCI; average accuracy of 75.7 vs. 66.3%).
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2015 • January 1, 2015
The study investigated a combination therapy involving NRP/GRP cell transplantation, passive cycling, and chronic quipazine administration to promote recovery from complete spinal cord injury (SCI) in...
KEY FINDING: Rats receiving the combination therapy displayed an increased response to quipazine, achieving a BBB score of ≥9 starting at 8 weeks post-injury, which persisted through 12 weeks.