Mechanism of skeletal muscle atrophy after spinal cord injury: A narrative review

X Xu, Z Talifu, CJ Zhang, F Gao, H Ke, YZ Pan… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Spinal cord injury leads to loss of innervation of skeletal muscle, decreased motor function,
and significantly reduced load on skeletal muscle, resulting in atrophy. Factors such as …

Spinal cord atrophy after spinal cord injury–A systematic review and meta-analysis

C Trolle, E Goldberg, C Linnman - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2023 - Elsevier
Cervical spinal cord atrophy occurs after spinal cord injury. The atrophy and how level of
injury affects atrophy differs between studies. A systematic review and metaanalysis were …

Long-term spinal cord stimulation after chronic complete spinal cord injury enables volitional movement in the absence of stimulation

I Peña Pino, C Hoover, S Venkatesh… - Frontiers in systems …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: Chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) portends a low probability of recovery,
especially in the most severe subset of motor-complete injuries. Active spinal cord …

Segmental motor recovery after cervical spinal cord injury relates to density and integrity of corticospinal tract projections

G Balbinot, G Li, S Kalsi-Ryan, R Abel, D Maier… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) causes extensive impairments for individuals which may
include dextrous hand function. Although prior work has focused on the recovery at the …

Spasticity predicts motor recovery for patients with subacute motor complete spinal cord injury

S Sangari, B Chen, F Grover, H Salsabili… - Annals of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective A motor complete spinal cord injury (SCI) results in the loss of voluntary motor
control below the point of injury. Some of these patients can regain partial motor function …

Imbalanced corticospinal and reticulospinal contributions to spasticity in humans with spinal cord injury

S Sangari, MA Perez - Journal of Neuroscience, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Damage to the corticospinal and reticulospinal tract has been associated with spasticity in
humans with upper motor neuron lesions. We hypothesized that these descending motor …

Epigallocatechin-3-gallate selenium nanoparticles for neuroprotection by scavenging reactive oxygen species and reducing inflammation

Y Wang, W Luo, F Lin, W Liu, R Gu - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Purpose: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severely crippling injury. Scavenging reactive oxygen
species (ROS) and suppressing inflammation to ameliorate secondary injury using …

The effects of adding transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation (tSCS) to sit-to-stand training in people with spinal cord injury: a pilot study

Y Al'joboori, SJ Massey, SL Knight… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Spinal cord stimulation may enable recovery of volitional motor control in people with
chronic Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). In this study we explored the effects of adding SCS, applied …

Characterizing the experience of spasticity after spinal cord injury: a national survey project of the spinal cord injury model systems centers

EC Field-Fote, CL Furbish, NE Tripp, JM Zanca… - Archives of physical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective To characterize the qualities that individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) associate
with their experience of spasticity and to describe the relationship between spasticity and …

Prevalence of spasticity in humans with spinal cord injury with different injury severity

S Sangari, MA Perez - Journal of neurophysiology, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Spasticity is one of the most common symptoms manifested following spinal cord injury
(SCI). The aim of this study was to assess spasticity in individuals with subacute and chronic …