Neuromuscular electrical stimulation of completely paralyzed abdominal muscles in spinal cord-injured patients: A pilot study

Spinal Cord

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 445-450

  Hascakova Bartova, R ^a,b   Dinant, J F ^a   Parent, A ^a   Ventura, M ^a,b  

^a Centre de traumatologie et de readaptation   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Abdominal muscles; Colonic transit; Forced vital capacity; Neuromuscular electrical stimulation; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BELGIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LUNG CAPACITY; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; PARALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RECTUM; SIGMOID; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRANSVERSE COLON;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 44849138126     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3102166     Document Type: Article

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