spinal cord injured patients: bait for research in the current millennium

Spinal Cord Injured Patients: Bait for Research in the Current Millennium.

Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) has been regarded as a disabling condition, with an annual worldwide incidence of 15 to 40 cases per million (1). Despite stringent traffic regulations, the incidence of SCI is on the rise leaving in its wake patients who remain handicapped throughout their life and a trail of insurmountable problems for their families and caregivers. SCI, a least understood d...

Development, Validity and Reliability of Sexual Health Measures for Spinal Cord Injured Patients in Iran

Tracheostomy in Spinal Cord Injured Patients

Patients with cervical spinal cord injury frequently need prolonged mechanical ventilation as a result of worsening pulmonary vital capacity due to paralysis of respiratory muscles, severe impairment of tracheobronchial secretions clearance and high incidence of respiratory complications like pneumonia or atelectasis. Patients with thoracic spinal cord injury may need mechanical ventilation due...

Retraining the injured spinal cord.

The present review presents a series of concepts that may be useful in developing rehabilitative strategies to enhance recovery of posture and locomotion following spinal cord injury. First, the loss of supraspinal input results in a marked change in the functional efficacy of the remaining synapses and neurons of intraspinal and peripheral afferent (dorsal root ganglion) origin. Second, follow...

Spinal Cord-Injured Rats

Opérant conditioning of the spinal stretch reflex or its electrical analog, the H-reflex, is a new model for exploring the mechanisms of long-term supraspinal control over spinal cord function. Primates and rats can gradually increase (HRup conditioning mode) or decrease (HRdown conditioning mode) the H-reflex when reward is based on H-reflex amplitude. An earlier study indicated that HRdown co...

EFFECTS OF CIS APRIDE ON CONS TIPATION DUE TO SPINAL CORD INJURY: REPORT OF FIVE WARFARE SPINAL CORD INJURED PATIENTS

Five warfare spinal cord injured patients with intractable constipation are described. Treatment with cisapride (4 x 10 mg daily) was undertaken. The agent cisapride significantly reduced the oral-anal transit time from 25.2 days to 14.4 days. It also improved other subjective complaints of these patients markedly. No side effects were seen during the trial.