Providing the clinical basis for new interventional therapies: Refined diagnosis and assessment of recovery after spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-6

  Curt, A ^a   Schwab, M E ^b   Dietz, V ^a  

^a BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assessment; Interventional studies; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRONEUROLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FETUS CELL; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TRAINING; WALKING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 0842329858     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101558     Document Type: Review

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