Background Wearable sleep monitors are of high interest to consumers and researchers
because of their ability to provide estimation of sleep patterns in free-living conditions in a …

More than a decade ago, spinal-cord injury meant confinement to a wheelchair and a
lifetime of medical comorbidity. The physician's armamentarium of treatments was very …

The emerging field of bioelectronic medicine seeks methods for deciphering and modulating
electrophysiological activity in the body to attain therapeutic effects at target organs. Current …

In the United States alone, there are more than 200,000 individuals living with a chronic
spinal cord injury (SCI). Healthcare for these individuals creates a significant economic …

▪ Abstract Paralyzed or paretic muscles can be made to contract by applying electrical
currents to the intact peripheral motor nerves innervating them. When electrically elicited …

This review provides a comprehensive overview of the clinical uses of neuromuscular
electrical stimulation (NMES) for functional and therapeutic applications in subjects with …

Background People with central neurological disease or injury have a much higher risk of
both faecal incontinence and constipation than the general population. There is often a fine …

Repair of the injured spinal cord by regeneration therapy remains an elusive goal. In
contrast, progress in medical care and rehabilitation has resulted in improved health and …

Structural discontinuity in the spinal cord after injury results in a disruption in the impulse
conduction resulting in loss of various bodily functions depending upon the level of injury …

Objective Locomotor training (LT) as a therapeutic intervention following spinal cord injury
(SCI) is an effective rehabilitation strategy for improving motor outcomes, but its impact on …