Motor, sensory and functional recovery in patients with spinal cord lesions

Spinal Cord Lesions in Patients with Cancer

Patients with cancer are prone to unique disease processes different from those that occur in the general population. Spinal cord lesions in patients with cancer may reflect neoplastic, infectious, ischemic, hemorrhagic, metabolic, and toxic etiologies. As treatments become more efficient in different cancers, subsequent early and late cancer and treatment complications may also become more fre...

Influence of Sexuality in Functional Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury in rats

  Background: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a major clinical condition and research is commonly done to find suitable treatment options. However, there are some degrees of spontaneous recovery after SCI and gender is said to be a contributing factor in recovery, but this is controversial. This study was done to compare the effects of sexual dimorphism on spontaneous recovery after spinal cord inj...

Functional recovery assessment of spinal cord contusion model in male rats without therapeutic interventions

Introduction: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is one of the most serious clinical diseases, which not only affects the patient's physical and mental status, but its effects will be spread to family and community. After severe spinal cord injury, astrocytes of the central nervous system (CNS) become reactive astrocytes, and play the main role of glial scar formation. The scar is a major obstacle to r...

Compensation allows recovery of functional independence in people with severe motor impairments following spinal cord injury.

Ischaemic sensory loss in patients with spinal and cerebral lesions.

In an investigation which has already been reported (Gilliatt and Wilson, 1954), sensation in the fingers was studied during periods of ischaemia of the arm, the ischaemia being produced artificially by inflating pneumatic cuffs to above arterial pressure round the limb. In a group of normal subjects examined after the inflation of a pneumatic tourniquet above the elbow, the mean duration of is...