Sentences with phrase «half after a spinal cord injury»

Physical therapy aimed at rebuilding neural pathways can often improve a patient's level of functioning in the months and years after a spinal cord injury.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx received the largest grant, of nearly $ 1.2 million, for research intended to improve urological function after spinal cord injury.

Short - term peripheral nerve stimulation may be a new approach to preventing long - term changes in nerve and muscle function and improving rehabilitation outcomes after spinal cord injuries.

After a spinal cord injury, blood cells that normally couldn't enter the nervous system breech the protective blood brain barrier and flood the injury site.

While mammals lack the ability to regenerate nervous system tissue after spinal cord injury, zebrafish can regenerate such tissue.

New research in mice indicates that a drug commonly used to suppress the immune system in recipients of organ transplants may also reduce tissue damage and neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury.

Deep brain stimulation is not the only form of electrical stimulation that could help restore movement after a spinal cord injury.

Rapamycin treatment four hours after spinal cord injury significantly improved locomotor function and reduced mechanical and thermal hypersensitivity in the hindpaws.

«Technique to promote nerve regeneration after spinal cord injury restores bladder function in rats.»

«Transplant drug may provide benefits after spinal cord injury.»

The findings may guide future efforts to restore other functions lost after spinal cord injury.

A new discovery at the University of Alberta will fundamentally alter how we view spinal cord function and rehabilitation after spinal cord injuries.

Karim Fouad and post-doctoral fellows Yaqing Li (center) and Ana M. Lucas - Osma (right) and their team made a new discovery that could alter how we view spinal cord function and rehabilitation after spinal cord injuries.

Published in Nature Medicine on May 1, 2017, the study demonstrates chronic ischemic hypoxia (lack of blood and oxygen) after spinal cord injury and how blood flow plays a key role in the cause and treatment of motor disorders.

Neuroscientists found that spinal blood flow in rats was unexpectedly compromised long after a spinal cord injury (chronically ischemia), and that improving blood flow or simply inhaling more oxygen produces lasting improvements in cord oxygenation and motor functions, such as walking.

He also showed in 2012 that paralyzed rats could recover after spinal cord injury after a few weeks of rehabilitation, combining electro - chemical stimulation and physiotherapy that uses a robotic harness.

«Protein found that improves mobility after spinal cord injuries.»

To understand what molecules were potentially responsible for this remarkable process, the scientists conducted a molecular fishing expedition of sorts, searching for all of the genes whose activity abruptly changed after spinal cord injury.

Oligodendrocyte death, occurring after a spinal cord injury, activates a process called de-myelination that results first in damage to surviving neuronal connections and finally in death of the affected neurons.

Here Dr. Reimer and his team asked the question, «what happens to mature oligodendrocytes after a spinal cord injury in adult zebrafish?».

This work shows for the first time that IL - 37 suppresses the inflammatory response after a spinal cord injury and minimises spinal tissue degeneration and functional disabilities.

A new study in mice published in The Journal of Neuroscience details a potential therapeutic strategy that uses stem cells to promote recovery of motor activity after spinal cord injury.

Stylized representation of a newly - discovered signaling pathway active after spinal cord injury, which sees the injured central nervous system use adrenal hormone production to potentially disrupt the immune system in a way that lead to severe infections.

«Interneurons can reroute after spinal cord injuries, which makes them a promising therapeutic target,» said senior author Todd McDevitt, PhD, a senior investigator at Gladstone.

After spinal cord injury, axons try to cross the injury site and reconnect with other cells but are stymied by scarring that forms after the injury.

WASHINGTON — Paralyzed rats can breathe a sigh of relief: A new treatment can restore lung function, even a year and a half after a spinal cord injury that takes it away.

Here, the research team led by Associate Professor Yukio Nishimura, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Natural Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), and Masahiro Sawada, a former graduate student of Kyoto University, and Dr. Hirotaka Onoe, a team leader at RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies found that the nucleus accumbens, that control motivation in the brain, activates the activity of the motor cortex of the brain, and then promotes recovery of motor function during the early stage of recovery after spinal cord injury.

The nucleus accumbens makes a causal contribution to the functional reinstatement of hand control during early stage recovery after spinal cord injury, and the activity of the nucleus accumbens successfully promotes functional recovery.

In the intact monkey, and also in the fully recovered stage (3 months after spinal cord injury), such deficit in hand movement by blocking the activity of the nucleus accumbens was not observed.

The results may guide future efforts to restore functions lost after spinal cord injury.

The study suggests that activation of muscle spindles is essential to promote the recovery process of damaged neuronal networks after spinal cord injury.

«Trigger mechanism for recovery after spinal cord injury revealed.»

Dr. Fyffe is a co-author of a related article, «Longitudinal analysis of hospitalization after spinal cord injury: Variation based on race and ethnicity,» published online on August 2 by Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (DOI: 10.1016 / j.apmr.2014.07.399).

«Row, row, row your bones: Can an FES rowing exercise program prevent osteoporosis after spinal cord injury?»

The signaling molecule CD95L, known as «death messenger,» causes an inflammatory process in injured tissue after spinal cord injuries and prevents its healing.

The discovery of motor pattern generators, the neural network's underlying movements, in the spinal cord is already being used to re-establish locomotion in people paralyzed after spinal cord injury.»

Reported MRI data from the SCiStar study that indicates AST - OPC1 cells have durably engrafted in patients post-implantation, demonstrating the potential for AST - OPC1 to prevent lesion cavity formation and possibly reducing spinal cord tissue deterioration after spinal cord injury.

For example, we are using electrical spinal stimulation synchronized with residual muscle activity or movement in order to produce lasting improvements in hand and arm function after spinal cord injury.

Previous studies of neuron survival by the Priestley lab have confirmed with toluidine blue histochemistry that NeuN immuno - reactivity is a reliable marker of neuron survival after spinal cord injury [34].

WEST ORANGE, N.J. — August 11, 2015 — The New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research awarded $ 198,000 over two years to Zhiguo (Tony) Jiang, Ph.D., research scientist at Kessler Foundation, to examine the efficacy of using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in assessing recovery after spinal cord injury (SCI).

Transcranial magnetic stimulation after spinal cord injury.

The CSNE is now recruiting more participants with challenges using their hands and arms after spinal cord injury, and the center will continue to test this novel form of stimulation as an innovative approach to improving hand and arm function.

We're using a neural device to make long - term changes in neural circuits after spinal cord injury.

Matt's Testimonial After a spinal cord injury left Matt with major disabilities, Matt describes how a change in attitude allowed him to conceive of a life fully healed.

Life after a spinal cord injury will not be easy.

Consider Calling a Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer after an Accident After a spinal cord injury, there will be countless hurdles that you have to tackle and overcome, ranging from intensive and invasive medical procedures to feelings about your own quality of life and future.

The symptoms and specific injuries that you will encounter after a spinal cord injury will depend on which part of your spinal cord is affected.

After a spinal cord injury, you will be dealing with major medical concerns.

For both men and women, sexual sensation after spinal cord injury is likely to be affected, as some of the nerves responsible for providing pleasurable feelings may not be functioning as they did pre-injury.

Adjusting to life after a spinal cord injury takes time and patience.