Sentences with phrase «of epidural stimulation»

Krassioukov and his colleagues are currently collaborating with colleagues in the U.S. on a larger trial, examining the benefits of epidural stimulation on a bigger group.

To that end, UofL is screening participants for a six - year study that will further explore the life - enhancing effects of epidural stimulation on people with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Now three years later, the key findings documented in Brain detail the impact of epidural stimulation in four participants, including new tests conducted on Summers.

However, in the presence of epidural stimulation, all four recovered voluntary control of their lower extremities, surprising researchers who believed at least some of the sensory pathway must be intact for epidural stimulation to be successful.

When coupling the intervention with rehabilitative therapy, the impact of epidural stimulation intensified.

«Because of epidural stimulation, they can now voluntarily move their hips, ankles and toes.

Research in animals with spinal injuries has shown that this type of epidural stimulation can activate neural circuits in the spinal cord and enable them to use sensory information from the legs to coordinate the muscle contractions necessary for standing and taking a step, Edgerton said at the press conference.

Not exact matches

A recent study comparing women's choices of pain relief in midwife - led and consultant - led units in Ireland showed that when women were offered other options such as hydrotherapy and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, fewer women chose epidural analgesia [9].

Edgerton is also working with various collaborators on NIBIB - funded projects to explore whether epidural stimulation can be used to help patients with paralysis of the upper limbs.

The initial research hypothesis stated that the two participants with the American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale (AIS) classification of AIS A would not elicit any voluntary movement, despite the therapy intervention, and the two participants who were AIS B would develop voluntary movement following a combination of training and epidural stimulation.

These results were achieved through continual direct epidural electrical stimulation of the participants» lower spinal cords, mimicking signals the brain normally transmits to initiate movement.

However, the implications of this study for the entire field are quite profound and we now can envision a day where epidural stimulation might be part of a cocktail of therapies used to treat paralysis.»

Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved groundbreaking progress — moving their legs — as a result of epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, an international team of life scientists at the University of Louisville, UCLA and the Pavlov Institute of Physiology reported today in the medical journal Brain.

«Epidural stimulation shown to normalize blood pressure following spinal cord injury: Research supports future study of beneficial effects of stimulation.»

This work builds on previous research at KSCIRC showing benefits of spinal cord epidural stimulation, along with activity - based training, in which individuals with SCI have achieved voluntary movement, standing and stepping, and improved bladder, bowel and sexual function.

Darrel made the decision to have electrodes surgically implanted over his spinal cord in 2016 to test out a treatment known as epidural stimulation in the hopes of improving some of the side effects.

In addition, Kessler is partnering with the University of Louisville to investigate epidural stimulation, in which a chip is implanted to deliver an electrical current through the spine to trigger walking.

Other avenues of exploration for Kessler include Hocoma's LokomatPro V6 and epidural stimulation.

«Epidural stimulation electrodes are implanted during surgery and are located right on the surface of the spinal cord, so they require little current to activate the spinal cord,» Moritz explained.