Exposure to acute intermittent hypoxia augments somatic motor function in humans with incomplete spinal cord injury

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 163-172

  Trumbower, Randy D ^a   Jayaraman, Arun ^b,c   Mitchell, Gordon S ^d   Rymer, William Z ^b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Breathing; Human; Hypoxia; Limb; Plasticity; Rehabilitation; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ACUTE INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE; ANOXIA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; TORQUE;

EID: 84856361151     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968311412055     Document Type: Article

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