Rehabilitation of the Individual with Spinal Cord Injury
21 Rehabilitation of the Individual with Spinal Cord Injury Aria Fallah, Derry Dance, and Anthony S. Burns Key Points 1. Until World War II, severe spinal cord injury (SCI) was…
Neuroimaging after Spinal Cord Injury: Evaluating Injury Severity and Prognosis Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
41 Neuroimaging after Spinal Cord Injury: Evaluating Injury Severity and Prognosis Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Maxwell Boakye Key Points 1. The presence of hematoma at injury level on MRI is…
The Management of Secondary Complications Following Spinal Cord Injury
22 The Management of Secondary Complications Following Spinal Cord Injury Anthony S. Burns, Jefferson R. Wilson, and B. Catharine Craven Key Points 1. A severe spinal cord injury affects every…
Neurogenomic and Neuroproteomic Approaches to Studying Neural Injury
53 Neurogenomic and Neuroproteomic Approaches to Studying Neural Injury Joy D. Guingab-Cagmat, Firas H. Kobeissy, Mary V. Ratliff, Peng Shi, Zhiqun Zhang, and Kevin K. W. Wang Key Points 1….
Animal Models of Spinal Cord Injury
31 Animal Models of Spinal Cord Injury Aileen J. Anderson, Sheri L. Peterson, and Christopher J. Sontag Key Points 1. SCI researchers utilize a wide range of animal models that…
Hypothermia: Evidence-Based Review
24 Hypothermia: Evidence-Based Review David M. Benglis Jr., Allan D. Levi, and Michael Y. Wang Key Points 1. A vast body of literature exists reporting the effects of experimentally induced…
Basic Neurophysiological Approaches to Probing Spinal Circuits
40 Basic Neurophysiological Approaches to Probing Spinal Circuits Rose Katz and Jean-Charles Lamy Key Points 1. Monosynaptic reflexes, ongoing EMG modulation, and post-stimulus time histogram are indirect techniques that allow…
Approaches Using Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering
37 Approaches Using Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Catherine E. Kang, Howard Kim, Violeta Talpag, and Molly Sandra Shoichet Key Points 1. Biomaterials are designed in accordance with the type of…
Interdisciplinary Essentials in Pressure Ulcer Management
15 Interdisciplinary Essentials in Pressure Ulcer Management Kath Bogie, Chester Ho, Monique Washington, Sharon Foster-Geeter, J. C. Seton, Steven J. Mitchell, Martin J. Kilbane, Gina L. D. Kubec, Kimberly Sexton,…
Spinal and Supraspinal Plasticity after Spinal Cord Injury
43 Spinal and Supraspinal Plasticity after Spinal Cord Injury Serge Rossignol and Alain Frigon Key Points 1. The recovery of motor functions after spinal cord injuries depends on neuroplastic changes…
