Innovative Methodology Measuring partial body potassium in the legs of patients with spinal cord injury: a new approach
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L. Wielopolski, L. M. Ramirez, A. M. Spungen, S. Swaby, P. Asselin, and W. A. Bauman Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science Department, Upton, New York; Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Merit Review Program and the Center of Excellence for the Medical Consequences of Spinal Cord Injury; and Medical and Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York; and Departments of Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical School, New York, New York
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Measuring partial body potassium in the legs of patients with spinal cord injury: a new approach.
Patients with acute spinal cord injury (SCI) with paralysis experience rapid and marked muscle atrophy below the level of the lesion. Muscle is lost above the lesion due to enforced bed rest associated with immobilization. Presently, there is no viable method to quantify muscle loss between the time of injury to the initiation of rehabilitation and remobilization. Furthermore, to assess the eff...
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