BACKGROUND Although spinal cord injuries are frequent causes of myelopathy in young patients, stab wounds of the spinal cord rarely occur and are typically maximal symptomatic immediately after the trauma. CASE DESCRIPTION A 31-year-old male developed delayed onset of symptoms 4 years after a stab wound to the cervical spinal cord attributed to a plant needle (plant called Mandacaru). Followi...

Various approaches to remedy the effects of spinal cord injury have been suggested from time to time. One of these is to study the regeneration following spinal cord transection in phylogenetic lower species in order to gain some information from this for its application in non-regenerating spinal cord injuries in higher species. In the present study the functional recovery following spinal cor...

In Part III of a continuing series on neuroanesthesia, the author explores the anesthetic considerations for acute spinal cord injuries. Because of the complexity and severity of physiologic disturbances seen in patients who have such injuries, the nurse anesthetist needs an understanding of the type of injury and the surgical procedure to be performed before the proper anesthetic care can be g...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to construct an adequate causal model of rehabilitation resource use based on a Taiwanese rehabilitation database system. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of data from a Taiwanese rehabilitation database system. SUBJECTS Records from 68 patients (51 men, 17 women; mean age 43 years) with spinal cord injuries were used in the study. METHODS Path analysis ...

BACKGROUND This study is aimed to determine the clinical and radiological corellations of adult patients with Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormalities (SCIWORA). METHODS The study population consisted of all adult patients with suspected cervical spine injury. SCIWORA was defined as the presence of either no injury or a neural injury on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in the abs...

BACKGROUND The paucity of published reports from West Africa on the outcome of spinal cord injuries (SCI) reflects the limitations of the developing health care delivery system in this part of the world. OBJECTIVE To review the outcome of the spinal cord injuries managed in our centre and relate same to those of published reports. METHODS We conducted a prospective study by utilizing a stru...

OBJECTIVE To study increases in electromyographic (EMG) response from the right and left rectus femoris muscles of individuals with long-term cervical spinal cord injuries after EMG biofeedback treatment. DESIGN Repeated measure trials compared EMG responses before and after biofeedback treatment in patients with spinal cord injuries. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The Neuroeducator was used to anal...

In experiments on models of spinal injuries and spinal cord in 79 laboratory rats, we found changes in reflexes revealed by electromyographic evaluation of spinal cord function during the recovery process. It is established that the parameters of calf muscle reflex responses change immediately after spinal cord injury and that the severity of changes in motor responses in the late posttraumatic...

Traumatic injuries to the brain and spinal cord affect a large percentage of the world's population. However, there are currently no effective treatments for these central nervous system (CNS) injuries. In our study, we evaluated the neuroprotective role of functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) carrying brain derived neurotrophic factor (BNDF), nogo-66 receptor (NgR) and Ras hom...