The American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale (AIS) was used to classify the spinal cord injuries of each of the four participants. When the four participants joined the study, they were ...

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

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.

Central Cord Syndrome: This type of injury primarily affects the centre of the spinal cord, resulting in greater impairment in the upper body compared to the lower body.

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 ...