Lower Thoracic Spinal Cord Stimulation to Restore Cough in Patients With Spinal Cord Injury: Results of a National Institutes of Health-Sponsored Clinical Trial. Part I: Methodology and Effectiveness of Expiratory Muscle Activation

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 717-725

  DiMarco, Anthony F ^a   Kowalski, Krzysztof E ^a   Geertman, Robert T ^b,c   Hromyak, Dana R ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cough; Electric stimulation; Quadriplegia; Rehabilitation; Respiratory muscles; Spinal cord injuries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRFLOW; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COUGHING; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPIDURAL SPACE; EVALUATION; EXPIRATORY MUSCLE ACTIVATION; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LUNG CAPACITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; QUADRIPLEGIA; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION;

ADULT; COUGH; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUADRIPLEGIA; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESPIRATORY MUSCLES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249158499     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2008.11.013     Document Type: Article

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