Adaptation of motor function after spinal cord injury: Novel insights into spinal shock

Brain

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 495-505

  Boland, Robert A ^a   Lin, Cindy S Y ^b   Engel, Stella ^c   Kiernan, Matthew C ^a,d  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

excitability; nerve injury; plasticity; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL VALUE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERONEUS NERVE; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REHABILITATION CARE; SHOCK; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL SHOCK; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AXONS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERONEAL NERVE; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; SHOCK, TRAUMATIC; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79551691225     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq289     Document Type: Article

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