Spinal cord
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Comparative Study
Traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord lesions: an Italian comparison of neurological and functional outcomes.
Retrospective study. ⋯ In clinically stable patients, spinal cord injury etiology does not seem to affect the rehabilitative prognosis. At admission, traumatic patients show lower autonomy in daily life activities, probably because of the associated lesions that these patients often have. At discharge, traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord lesion patients achieved similar results with regard to neurological and functional improvement.
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Prospective longitudinal experimental study. ⋯ The EPT test showed good sensitivity to change in dermatomes at and directly below the sensory level of the SCI. This makes it a potentially useful quantitative sensory instrument for detecting changes in sensory function during longitudinal monitoring of patients with SCI.
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Retrospective, longitudinal analysis of sensory, motor and functional outcomes from individuals with thoracic (T2-T12) sensorimotor complete spinal cord injury (SCI). ⋯ The data suggest that a sustained deterioration of three or more thoracic sensory levels or loss of upper extremity motor function are rare events and may be useful for tracking the safety of a therapeutic intervention in early phase acute SCI clinical trials, if a significant proportion of study subjects exhibit such an ascent.
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Retrospective database review. ⋯ Acute care in organized SCI TCs before transfer to IRF can significantly lower acute-care LOS or total LOS and incidence of pressure ulcers compared with non-SCI TCs. Patients admitted to IRF from SCI TCs are no more likely to be sent back to an acute hospital than those from non-SCI TCs.
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Prospective cohort study. ⋯ Recovery of voluntary motor function can be quantitatively tracked using neurophysiological methods in the domains of time and multimuscle motor unit activation.