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Health promotion and cardiovascular risk reduction in people with spinal cord injury: physical activity, healthy diet and maintenance after discharge— protocol for a prospective national cohort study and a preintervention- postintervention study

BMJ Open, 2019
Introduction Spinal cord injury (SCI) predisposes those who suffer from it to physical inactivity and weight gain; consequently, death due to cardiovascular diseases is more frequent among people with SCI than in the general population.
Nicolaj Jersild Holm, Tom Møller, Lis Adamsen, Line Trine Dalsgaard, Fin Biering-Sorensen, Lone Helle Schou   +5 more
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Caregiving, Participation, and Quality of Life of Closest Next of Kin of Persons Living with Spinal Cord Injury in Norway

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2022
Objectives: To investigate how next of kin of persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) experience various life areas in terms of caregiving, participation, and quality of life, and the impact of personal characteristics of next of kin and SCI ...
Annette Halvorsen, Kristine Pape, Marcel Post, Fin Biering-Sørensen, Monica Engelsjord, Aslak Steinsbekk   +5 more
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Metabolic profile of injured human spinal cord determined using surface microdialysis. [PDF]

, 2016
The management of patients having traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) would benefit from understanding and monitoring of spinal cord metabolic states. We hypothesized that the metabolism of the injured spinal cord could be visualized using Kohonen self ...
Awad, Bethea, Cozzens, Cripps, Fehlings, Hutchinson, Kohonen, Nelson, Phang, Phang, Phang, Timofeev, Werndle, Werndle   +13 more
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Simultaneous submicrometric 3D imaging of the micro-vascular network and the neuronal system in a mouse spinal cord [PDF]

, 2014
Defaults in vascular (VN) and neuronal networks of spinal cord are responsible for serious neurodegenerative pathologies. Because of inadequate investigation tools, the lacking knowledge of the complete fine structure of VN and neuronal systems is a ...
Battaglia, Giuseppe, Bravin, Alberto, Brun, Francesco, Bucci, Domenico, Bukreeva, Inna, Campi, Gaetano, Cedola, Alessia, Fratini, Michela, Giove, Federico, Mastrogiacomo, Maddalena, Modregger, Peter, Requardt, Herwig, Spadon, Raffaele, Tromba, Giuliana   +13 more
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Brachial plexus injury mimicking a spinal-cord injury. [PDF]

, 2010
Objective High-energy impact to the head, neck, and shoulder can result in cervical spine as well as brachial plexus injuries. Because cervical spine injuries are more common, this tends to be the initial focus for management.
Aversano, Michael, Gonzalez-Giraldo, Ernesto, Heuer, Gregory G, Macyszyn, Luke J, Schuster, James M, Zager, Eric L   +5 more
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SponDT (Spondylodiscitis Diagnosis and Treatment): spondylodiscitis scoring system

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2019
Background Spondylodiscitis is a chameleon among infectious diseases due to the lack of specific symptoms with which it is associated. It is nevertheless a serious infection, with 7% mortality of hospitalized patients, in large part because of delayed ...
Lars Homagk, Daniel Marmelstein, Nadine Homagk, Gunther O. Hofmann   +3 more
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Modernization of a Large Spinal Cord Injuries and Disorders Registry: The Veterans Administration Experience

Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation, 2022
Since the 1990s, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has maintained a registry of Veterans with Spinal Cord Injuries and Disorders (SCI/Ds) to guide clinical care, policy, and research. Historically, methods for collecting and recording data for the VHA
Jennifer L. Sippel, PhD, Jennifer E. Daly, PhD, Linda Poggensee, MS, Kim D. Ristau, BS, Adam C. Eberhart, DPT, Katharine Tam, MD, Charlesnika T. Evans, PhD, Betsy Lancaster, BS, I. Manosha Wickremasinghe, MD, Stephen P. Burns, MD, Barry Goldstein, MD, PhD, Bridget M. Smith, PhD   +11 more
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A Laser-Guided Spinal Cord Displacement Injury in Adult Mice [PDF]

, 2018
Mouse models are unique for studying molecular mechanisms of neurotrauma because of the availability of various genetic modified mouse lines. For spinal cord injury (SCI) research, producing an accurate injury is essential, but it is challenging because ...
Bakare, Adewale A., Fry, Collin M.E., Qu, Wenrui, Shields, Christopher B., Shields, Lisa B.E., Wu, Xiangbing, Xu, Xiao-Ming, Zhang, Yi Ping   +7 more
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Axonal regeneration in hippocampal and spinal cord organotypic slice cultures [PDF]

, 2010
Under normal conditions, axonal regeneration after lesions is not possible in mature CNS but can occur in embryonic and early postnatal nervous systems. In recent years, a number of possible strategies to enhance axonal regeneration and eventually treat ...
Bonnici, Brenda
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Functional outcome of patients with spinal cord injury: rehabilitation outcome study [PDF]

, 1999
Objective: To increase our knowledge of neurological recovery and functional outcome of patients with spinal cord injuries in order to make more successful rehabilitation programmes based on realistic goals.Design: Descriptive analysis of data gathered ...
G A Mulder, Hussey RW, J W Groothoff, Lazar RB, M C Schönherr, Rogers JC, W H Eisma, Waters RL, Waters RL, Waters RL, Welch RD, World Health Organization, Yarkony GM   +12 more
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