Motor control after human SCI through activation of muscle synergies under spinal cord stimulation

R Cheng, Y Sui, D Sayenko… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has enabled motor recovery in paraplegics with motor
complete spinal cord injury (SCI). However, the physiological mechanisms underlying this …

Boosting in elite athletes with spinal cord injury: a critical review of physiology and testing procedures

CM Gee, CR West, AV Krassioukov - Sports Medicine, 2015 - Springer
Many individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) experience autonomic dysfunction, which can
have major implications on heart rate and blood pressure responses to exercise, and …

Changes in cerebral oxygenation and blood flow during LBNP in spinal cord-injured individuals

S Houtman, JM Serrador… - Journal of applied …, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
Spinal cord-injured (SCI) individuals, having a sympathetic nervous system lesion,
experience hypotension during sitting and standing. Surprisingly, they experience few …

Cognitive performance in hypotensive persons with spinal cord injury

AB Jegede, D Rosado-Rivera, WA Bauman… - Clinical Autonomic …, 2010 - Springer
Background Due to sympathetic de-centralization, individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI),
especially those with tetraplegia, often present with hypotension, worsened with upright …

Temporal analysis of cardiovascular control and function following incomplete T3 and T10 spinal cord injury in rodents

KA Harman, G States, A Wade, C Stepp… - Physiological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition that results in whole‐body dysfunction,
notably cardiovascular (CV) disruption and disease. Injury‐induced destruction of autonomic …

Increased vascular resistance in paralyzed legs after spinal cord injury is reversible by training

MTE Hopman, JT Groothuis… - Journal of applied …, 2002 - journals.physiology.org
The purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of a spinal cord injury (SCI) on
resting vascular resistance in paralyzed legs in humans. To accomplish this goal, we …

Muscle activation varies with contraction mode in human spinal cord injury

HE Kim, CK Thompson, TG Hornby - Muscle & nerve, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction: To better understand volitional force generation after chronic incomplete spinal
cord injury (SCI), we examined muscle activation during single and repeated isometric …

Sympathetic skin responses and autonomic dysfunction in spinal cord injury

MJ Berger, M Hubli, AV Krassioukov - Journal of Neurotrauma, 2014 - liebertpub.com
Sympathetic skin responses (SSRs), a measure of sympathetic cholinergic sudomotor
function, have been used in the assessment of autonomic dysfunction in patients with spinal …

Brain and spinal cord paired stimulation coupled with locomotor training affects polysynaptic flexion reflex circuits in human spinal cord injury

TS Pulverenti, M Zaaya, M Knikou - Experimental brain research, 2022 - Springer
Neurorecovery from locomotor training is well established in human spinal cord injury (SCI).
However, neurorecovery resulting from combined interventions has not been widely studied …

Acute changes in soleus H-reflex facilitation and central motor conduction after targeted physical exercises

NY Harel, SA Martinez, S Knezevic, PK Asselin… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
We tested the acute effect of exercises targeted simultaneously at cortical and brainstem
circuits on neural transmission through corticobulbar connections. Corticobulbar pathways …