Newly developed robotic trunk support can now train millions of people with spinal cord injury (SCI) by challenging them to sit more stably and move their trunk over a larger workspace.// ...

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 ...

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 ...

Doctors use the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury when determining the classification of injuries. If there is ...

Columbia engineers invent a robotic trunk-support-trainer to retrain patients with spinal cord injury to sit more stably and gain an expanded active sitting workspace New York, NY--January 6 ...

The neurologic level was derived from sensory and motor scores on the American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale (AIS ... 1 and 2 had a T4 spinal cord injury level with no movement ...

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 ...

“Blood pressure and trunk control are two of the many challenges people with spinal cord injury must manage in order to navigate their daily lives,” said Dave Marver, Chief Executive Officer ...

“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 ...

About 80 percent of spinal cord injuries reported to the national database happen in men. Nearly half of all injuries occur in young people between the ages of 16 and 30, but the average age of ...