In addition, all four participants achieved independent standing and trunk stability ... Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale (AIS) was used to classify the spinal cord injuries of each ...

Patient age, severe neurological impairment, and forced vital capacity (FVC) are useful for predicting the need for tracheostomy in the management of patients with cervical spinal cord injury ...

Doctors use the American Spinal ... Cord Injury when determining the classification of injuries. If there is evidence of any motor or sensory function in the area around the anus, one of four ...

The American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) established a grading system called the ASIA Impairment Scale to describe the severity of spinal cord injuries. The system uses the letters A through ...

The first participant, a young adult woman, had a motor and sensory incomplete American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale (AIS C) T1 lesion that occurred 5 years earlier.

Paraplegia: Paraplegia occurs when the injury affects the thoracic (chest) or lumbar (lower back) region of the spinal cord. It results in paralysis or impairment of the lower limbs, with the ...

"Collaboration on this international scale is a vital step toward our vision of a fully autologous regenerative therapy for spinal cord injury," said Gil Hakim, CEO of Matricelf. "Matricelf’s ...

Researchers grouped patients according to their injury levels: C4 spinal cord injury or higher plus complete motor impairment (n = 20), C4 injury or higher plus incomplete motor impairment (n = 5 ...

Kessler Foundation researchers have published a new clinical study investigating the effects of robotic postural stand training combined with spinal cord epidural stimulation (Stand-scES) on trunk ...