We performed a comparative study of histological, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural characteristics of blood microvasculature in specimens of pressure ulcers (PU) in paraplegic patients with acute spinal cord injury and in non paraplegic subjects. For immunohistochemical study we stained for cell membrane proteins that are commonly utilized for light microscopic characterization of blood ...

Autonomic dysfunction, a relative sedentary lifestyle, a reduced muscle mass and increased adiposity leads to metabolic abnormalities that accelerate the development of coronary artery disease (CAD) in individuals living with spinal cord injury (SCI). An untoward cardiac incident is related to the degree of CAD, suggesting that the occurrence of a significant cardiac event is significantly high...

Objective: The aim of this study was to test how the presence of central neuropathic pain (CNP) influences the performance of a motor imagery based Brain Computer Interface (BCI). Methods: In this electroencephalography (EEG) based study, we tested BCI classification accuracy and analysed event related desynchronisation (ERD) in 3 groups of volunteers during imagined movements of their arms and...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to test how the presence of central neuropathic pain (CNP) influences the performance of a motor imagery based Brain Computer Interface (BCI). METHODS In this electroencephalography (EEG) based study, we tested BCI classification accuracy and analysed event related desynchronisation (ERD) in 3 groups of volunteers during imagined movements of their arms and...

Each year, some 12,000 Americans are rendered paraplegic or quadriplegic by spinal cord injury. Most of these injuries result from motor vehicle accidents, falls, and sports-related trauma. Although the short-term and long-term prognosis for paraplegic and quadriplegic patients has improved in recent years, an alarmingly large number of these patients die before or during initial hospitalizatio...