Home-based functional electrical stimulation rescues permanently denervated muscles in paraplegic patients with complete lower motor neuron lesion

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 709-721

  Kern, Helmut ^a   Carraro, Ugo ^b   Adami, Nicoletta ^b   Biral, Donatella ^b   Hofer, Christian ^a   Forstner, Claudia ^a   Mödlin, Michaela ^a   Vogelauer, Michael ^a   Pond, Amber ^c   Boncompagni, Simona ^d   Paolini, Cecilia ^d   Mayr, Winfried ^e   Protasi, Feliciano ^d   Zampieri, Sandra ^b  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

computed tomography; conus and cauda equina spinal cord injury; functional electrical stimulation; human muscle biopsy; long term denervation; lower motor neuron lesion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUDA EQUINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOME BASED FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE MASS; PARAPLEGIA; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TORQUE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; PARAPLEGIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957746744     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968310366129     Document Type: Article

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