Spinal cord injury: One-year evolution of motor-evoked potentials and recovery of leg motor function in 255 patients

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 939-948

  Petersen, Jens A ^a,b   Spiess, Martina ^b   Curt, Armin ^b   Dietz, Volker ^b   Schubert, MartiN ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

human; longitudinal study; motor evoked potentials; neurophysiology; recovery; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIA IMPAIRMENT SCALE; CONVALESCENCE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LATENT PERIOD; LEG MOVEMENT; LOWER EXTREMITY MOTOR SCORE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PROGNOSIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUADRIPLEGIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TIBIAL NERVE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WALKING;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REACTION TIME; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIBIAL NERVE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WALKING;

EID: 84866279627     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968312438437     Document Type: Article

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