Latest Research Summaries

KEY FINDING: Personal limiting factors include insufficient health literacy and inadequate home adaptations.

KEY FINDING: Spinal cord injury (SCI) at the T9 level amplifies lung inflammation in mice following exposure to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), as evidenced by increased pro-inflammatory gene expression and cytokine release.

KEY FINDING: Non-invasive central nervous system stimulation had significant effects on Lower Extremity Motor Scale (LEMS) score and gait speed when all studies were pooled together.

KEY FINDING: The mean time to start rehabilitation after SCI was 17.68 months, with a significant percentage of participants not undergoing any rehabilitation.

KEY FINDING: SNI induces chronic pain and depressive-like behaviors in mice, evidenced by decreased mechanical pain threshold, thermal pain latency, and reduced exploratory behavior.

KEY FINDING: A ddPCR assay detected spinal cord–derived cfDNA in plasma of 50 patients with acute SCI (AUC: 0.89, 95% CI 0.83–0.95, P < 0.0001).

KEY FINDING: The Experimental Intervention (EI) group exhibited a general strength increase after the intervention, ranging from 16.31 to 34.72 N, and maintained this improvement for hip abduction and extension movements up to a 1-month follow-up.

KEY FINDING: Robot-assisted bimanual training (RBMT) improved the patient’s upper limb motor function and activity independence.

KEY FINDING: Prior exercise significantly increased the mechanical withdrawal threshold (MWT) and thermal withdrawal latency (TWL) in rats with CCI, indicating a reduction in pain sensitivity.

KEY FINDING: Identified 75 differentially expressed aging-circadian rhythm related genes between normal and KOA groups, primarily enriched in the circadian rhythm pathway.