Defining the role of sensation, strength, and prehension for upper limb function in cervical spinal cord injury

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 66-74

  Kalsi Ryan, Sukhvinder ^a,b,c,d   Beaton, Dorcas ^a,e   Curt, Armin ^d,f   Duff, Susan ^d,g   Jiang, Depeng ^h   Popovic, Milos R ^a,c   Rudhe, Claudia ^d,f   Fehlings, Michael G ^a,b,d   Verrier, Mary C ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d International GRASSP Research and Design Team   (Canada)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^g THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

function; hand; impairment; tetraplegia; upper limb

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CAPABILITIES OF UPPER EXTREMITY QUESTIONNAIRE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRADED REDEFINED ASSESSMENT OF STRENGTH SENSIBILITY AND PREHENSION; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; QUADRIPLEGIA; SENSATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; STRENGTH; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

FUNCTION; HAND; IMPAIRMENT; TETRAPLEGIA; UPPER LIMB;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; QUADRIPLEGIA; SENSATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84890959049     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968313490998     Document Type: Article

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