243 August 2013 S PINAL cord stimulation was first described in 1967 in an intriguing case report provided by Shealy et al.1 This first case involved the relief from cancerrelated pain using a surgically implanted electrode sutured to the dura to provide stimulation of the dorsal columns. Although the entire treatment was only for approximately 1 day before the patient’s demise, stimulation usi...

OBJECTIVE To use a combination of electrophysiological techniques to determine the extent of preserved muscle activity below the clinically-defined level of motor-complete spinal cord injury. METHODS Transcranial magnetic stimulation and vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials were used to investigate whether there was any preserved muscle activity in trunk, hip and leg muscles of 16 individual...

Spinal cord injury is one of the most painful wounds in human bodies, and also is a problem difficult to solve in the medical science field. Electrical nerve stimulation bridging is a hot research topic for limb function reconstruction after spinal cord injury, most important of which is to determine the location of the “Pier”. In other words, how to find the accurate position of the stimulatio...

BACKGROUND This study was to explore the possibility that foot stimulation increased bladder capacity(BC) in rats with neurogenic bladder secondary to T10 spinal cord injuries. METHODS In 20 awake rats (stimulation group) with T10 spinal cord injuries, 5 repeat cystometrograms (CMGs) were recorded. The 1st and 2nd CMGs were performed without stimulation. The 3rd, 4th, and 5th CMGs were done s...