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- Title
One year of home-based daily FES in complete lower motor neuron paraplegia: recovery of tetanic contractility drives the structural improvements of denervated muscle.
- Authors
Kern, Helmut; Carraro, Ugo; Adami, Nicoletta; Hofer, Christian; Loefler, Stefan; Vogelauer, Michael; Mayr, Winfried; Rupp, Rudiger; Zampieri, Sandra
- Abstract
Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes muscle atrophy, which is particularly severe, due to inability to perform tetanic contractions, when lower motor neurons (LMN) are involved. We performed a longitudinal study in 25 Europeans suffering from complete conus cauda syndrome from 0.7 to 8.7 years comparing functional and structural thigh muscle properties before and after 2 years of home-based daily training by functional electrical stimulation (FES). The mid-term results after 1 year and preliminary muscle biopsy observations at project end-point from a subset of subjects are here reported.
- Publication
Neurological research, 2010, Vol 32, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
1743-1328
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1179/174313209X385644