Electrophysiological outcomes after spinal cord injury

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Xie, James ^a,b   Boakye, Maxwell ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical perceptual threshold; Electrophysiological outcome; Motor evoked potential; Somatosensory evoked potential; Spinal cord injury; Sympathetic skin response

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CONDUCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 63849086382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/FOC.2008.25.11.E11     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Aranyi Z, Mathis J, Hess CW, et al: Task-dependent facilitation of motor evoked potentials during dynamic and steady muscle contractions. Muscle Nerve 21:1309-1316, 1998
2. Cariga P, Catley M, Mathias CJ, et al: Organisation of the sympathetic skin response in spinal cord injury. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 72:356-360, 2002
3. Curt A, Dietz V: Ambulatory capacity in spinal cord injury: significance of somatosensory evoked potentials and ASIA protocol in predicting outcome. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 78:39-43, 1997
4. Curt A, Dietz V: Electrophysiological recordings in patients with spinal cord injury: significance for predicting outcome. Spinal Cord 37:157-165, 1999
5. Curt A, Dietz V: Traumatic cervical spinal cord injury: relation between somatosensory evoked potentials, neurological deficit, and hand function. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 77:48- 53, 1996
6. Curt A, Keck ME, Dietz V: Functional outcome following spinal cord injury: significance of motor-evoked potentials and ASIA scores. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 79:81-86, 1998
7. Curt A, Van Hedel HJ, Klaus D, et al: Recovery from a spinal cord injury: significance of compensation, neural plasticity, and repair. J Neurotrauma 25:677-685, 2008
8. Curt A, Weinhardt C, Dietz V: Significance of sympathetic skin response in the assessment of autonomic failure in patients with spinal cord injury. J Auton Nerv Syst 61:175-180, 1996
9. Davey NJ, Nowicky AV, Zaman R: Somatopy of perceptual threshold to cutaneous electrical stimulation in man. Exp Physiol 86:127-130, 2001
10. Di Lazzaro V, Oliviero A, Profice P, et al: The diagnostic value of motor evoked potentials. Clin Neurophysiol 110:1297- 1307, 1999
11. Diehl P, Kliesch U, Dietz V, et al: Impaired facilitation of motor evoked potentials in incomplete spinal cord injury. J Neurol 253:51-57, 2006
12. Ellaway PH, Anand P, Bergstrom EM, et al: Towards improved clinical and physiological assessments of recovery in spinal cord injury: a clinical initiative. Spinal Cord 42:325- 337, 2004
13. Fawcett JW, Curt A, Steeves JD, et al: Guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials for spinal cord injury as developed by the ICCP panel: spontaneous recovery after spinal cord injury and statistical power needed for therapeutic clinical trials. Spinal Cord 45:190-205, 2007
14. Hiersemenzel LP, Curt A, Dietz V: From spinal shock to spasticity: neuronal adaptations to a spinal cord injury. Neurology 54:1574-1582, 2000
15. Houlden DA, Schwartz ML, Klettke KA: Neurophysiologic diagnosis in uncooperative trauma patients: confounding factors. J Trauma 33:244-251, 1992
16. Inghilleri M, Lorenzano C, Conte A, et al: Effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on the H reflex and F wave in the hand muscles. Clin Neurophysiol 114:1096-1101, 2003
17. Iseli E, Cavigelli A, Dietz V, et al: Prognosis and recovery in ischaemic and traumatic spinal cord injury: clinical and electrophysiological evaluation. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 67:567-571, 1999
18. Jacobs SR, Yeaney NK, Herbison GJ, et al: Future ambulation prognosis as predicted by somatosensory evoked potentials in motor complete and incomplete quadriplegia. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 76:635-641, 1995
19. Knikou M: The H-reflex as a probe: pathways and pitfalls. J Neurosci Methods 171:1-12, 2008
20. Kramer JL, Moss AJ, Taylor P, et al: Assessment of posterior spinal cord function with electrical perception threshold in spinal cord injury. J Neurotrauma 25:1019-1026, 2008
21. Lim PA, Tow AM: Recovery and regeneration after spinal cord injury: a review and summary of recent literature. Ann Acad Med Singapore 36:49-57, 2007
22. Lin JZ, Floeter MK: Do F-wave measurements detect changes in motor neuron excitability? Muscle Nerve 30:289-294, 2004
23. Lukacs M: F wave measurements detecting changes in motor neuron excitability after ischaemic stroke. Electromyogr Clin Neurophysiol 47:109-115, 2007
24. Nicotra A, Catley M, Ellaway PH, et al: The ability of physiological stimuli to generate the sympathetic skin response in human chronic spinal cord injury. Restor Neurol Neurosci 23:331-339, 2005
25. Perez MA, Lungholt BK, Nielsen JB: Short-term adaptations in spinal cord circuits evoked by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: possible underlying mechanisms. Exp Brain Res 162:202-212, 2005
26. Petersen NT, Pyndt HS, Nielsen JB: Investigating human motor control by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Exp Brain Res 152:1-16, 2003
27. Savic G, Bergstrom EM, Frankel HL, et al: Perceptual threshold to cutaneous electrical stimulation in patients with spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord 44:560-566, 2006
28. Shields CB, Ping Zhang Y, Shields LB, et al: Objective assessment of cervical spinal cord injury levels by transcranial magnetic motor-evoked potentials. Surg Neurol 66:475-483, 2006
29. Smith HC, Savic G, Frankel HL, et al: Corticospinal function studied over time following incomplete spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord 38:292-300, 2000
30. Spiess M, Schubert M, Kliesch U, et al: Evolution of tibial SSEP after traumatic spinal cord injury: baseline for clinical trials. Clin Neurophysiol 119:1051-1061, 2008
31. Steeves JD, Lammertse D, Curt A, et al: Guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials for spinal cord injury (SCI) as developed by the ICCP panel: clinical trial outcome measures. Spinal Cord 45:206-221, 2007
32. Wirth B, Van Hedel HJ, Curt A: Changes in corticospinal function and ankle motor control during recovery from incomplete spinal cord injury. J Neurotrauma 25:467-478, 2008