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Scientific Abstracts

• Aging with SCI
• Automatic dysreflexia (AD)
• Cardiovascular
• Communication to and from people with disabilities
• Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
• Depression
• Diabetes
• Exercise, recreation, and leisure
• Functional Electric Stimulation (FES)
• Gastrointestinal
• Genitourinary tract
• Health maintenance and health promotion
• Internet and computer applications
• Lipids
• Osteoporosis
• Pain
• Quality of life and life satisfaction
• Rehabilitation/Physical Therapy
• Respiratory and pulmonary
• Secondary Complications after SCI
• Skin
• Sexuality and reproductive issues
• Social and economic participation
• Stress
• Substance abuse

Aging with SCI

• Aging after spinal cord injury: A 30-year longitudinal study
• Aging, spinal cord injury, and quality of life: structural relationships
• Aging with spinal cord injury
• Aging with spinal cord injury: changes in selected health indices and life satisfaction
• Bone loss and mechanical properties of tibia in spinal cord injured men
• Comparative analysis of goal achievement during rehabilitation for older and younger adults with spinal cord injury
• Effect of age on spinal cord injury
  
• Effects on age on spinal cord lesion patients' rehabilitation
• International differences in ageing and spinal cord injury
• Long-term changes in bone metabolism, bone mineral density, quantitative ultrasound parameters, and fracture incidence after spinal cord injury: a cross-sectional observational study in 100 paraplegic men.
• Long-term spinal cord injury: functional changes over time
• Mortality rates in geriatric patients with spinal cord injuries.
• Pressure ulcer prevalence in people with spinal cord injury: age-period-duration effects.
• Recent trends in mortality and causes of death among persons with spinal cord injury
• Selecting cushions and armchairs: how to make an informed choice.
• Spinal cord injury medicine. 5. Preserving wellness and independence of the aging patient with spinal cord injury: a primary care approach for the rehabilitation medicine specialist
• Spinal cord injury rehabilitation outcome: the impact of age.
• The biomechanics of sitting-acquired pressure ulcers in patients with spinal cord injury or lesions.

Automatic dysreflexia (AD)

• Autonomic dysreflexia during a bowel program in patients with cervical spinal cord injury
• Autonomic dysreflexia in acute spinal cord injury: an under-recognized clinical entity
• Autonomic dysreflexia in response to pudendal nerve stimulation
  

Cardiovascular

• A new method of using heart rate to represent energy expenditure: the Total Heart Beat Index
• Arterial stiffness in persons with paraplegia
• Cardiovascular control during exercise: insights from spinal cord-injured humans
• Cardiovascular disease in spinal cord injury: an overview of prevalence, risk, evaluation, and management
• Cardiovascular health and fitness in persons with spinal cord injury
• Circuit training provides cardiorespiratory and strength benefits in persons with paraplegia
• Current coronary heart disease risk assessment tools may underestimate risk in community-dwelling persons with chronic spinal cord injury (Free article available for a lmited time!)
• Daily vs twice daily enoxaparin in the prevention of venous thromboembolic disorders during rehabilitation following acute spinal cord injury.
• Double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial of midodrine for exercise performance enhancement in tetraplegia: a pilot study.
• Electrocardiographic findings in patients with chronic spinal cord injury
• Lipid profile in spinal cord-injured women with different injury levels
• Measurement of coronary artery calcification by electron beam computerized tomography in persons with chronic spinal cord injury: evidence for increased atherosclerotic burden
• Measurement of coronary artery calcification by electron beam computerized tomography in persons with chronic spinal cord injury: evidence for increased atherosclerotic burden
• T5 spinal cord transection increases susceptibility to reperfusion-induced ventricular tachycardia by enhancing sympathetic activity in conscious rats.
  

Communication to and from people with disabilities

• Doctor-patient communication: do people with spinal cord injury wish to receive written information about their medical condition from the physicians after an outpatient visit or after a readmission in the spinal unit?
• Information needs and information sources of individuals living with spinal cord injury.

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)

• A comparison of heparin/warfarin and enoxaparin thromboprophylaxis in spinal cord injury: the Sheffield experience
• Comparison of dalteparin and enoxaparin for deep venous thrombosis prophylaxis in patients with spinal cord injury
• Deep vein thrombosis and heterotopic ossification in spinal cord injury: a 3 year experience at the Swiss Paraplegic Centre Nottwil
• Prevention of venous thromboembolism in the acute treatment phase after spinal cord injury: a randomized, multicenter trial comparing low-dose heparin plus intermittent pneumatic compression with enoxaparin
• Primary prevention of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in acute spinal cord injured patients
• Routine prophylactic vena cava filtration is not indicated after acute spinal cord injury
• Upper-extremity deep vein thrombosis associated with peripherally inserted central catheters in acute spinal cord injury: a report of 2 cases

Depression

• An examination of depression through the lens of spinal cord injury. Comparative prevalence rates and severity in women and men
• An examination of depression through the lens of spinal cord injury. Comparative prevalence rates and severity in women and men.
• An examination of depression through the lens of spinal cord injury. Comparative prevalence rates and severity in women and men
• Predicting depression and psychological distress in persons with spinal cord injury based on indicators of handicap
• Symptoms of major depression in people with spinal cord injury: implications for screening
• Symptoms of major depression in people with spinal cord injury: implications for screening
• Symptoms of major depression in people with spinal cord injury: implications for screening.
  

Diabetes

• Body mass index in spinal cord injury -- a retrospective study
• Diabetes mellitus in individuals with spinal cord injury or disorder
• Metabolic syndrome in adolescents with spinal cord dysfunction
• Obesity after spinal cord injury.
• Obesity after spinal cord injury
• Obesity intervention in persons with spinal cord injury
• Tight glycemic control by insulin, started in the preischemic, but not postischemic, period, protects against ischemic spinal cord injury in rabbits ** Free article available for a limited time
  
  

Exercise, recreation, and leisure

• Behavioral intervention, exercise, and nutrition education to improve health and fitness (BENEfit) in adolescents with mobility impairment due to spinal cord dysfunction **(FREE article available for a limited time)
• Can body weight supported treadmill training increase bone mass and reverse muscle atrophy in individuals with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury
• Cardiovascular control during exercise: insights from spinal cord-injured humans
• Effects of a wheelchair ergometer training programme on spinal cord-injured persons
• Energy Cost of Propulsion in Standard and Ultralight Wheelchairs in People With Spinal Cord Injuries
• Energy expenditure during walking with weight-bearing control (WBC) orthosis in thoracic level of paraplegic patients
• Evaluation of sprint exercise testing protocols in wheelchair athletes
• Exercise and sports for children who have disabilities
• Exercise recommendations for individuals with spinal cord injury
• Exertional hypotension in spinal cord injury
• Fitness Program for Children with Disabilities
• Long-term exercise training in persons with spinal cord injury: effects on strength, arm ergometry performance and psychological well-being
• Maintenance of exercise participation in individuals with spinal cord injury: effects on quality of life, stress and pain
• Muscle atrophy and procedures for training after spinal cord injury.
• Muscle endurance and power spectrum of the triceps brachii in wheelchair marathon racers with paraplegia
• Muscle pain in athletes with loco motor disability
• Neuromusculoskeletal syndromes in wheelchair athletes
• Outdoor winter activities of spinal cord-injured patients. With special reference to outdoor mobility
• Practical management: common medical problems in disabled athletes
• Recreational planning: an important component of career counseling for people with disabilities
• Rehabilitation Strategies for the Tetraplegic Patient in the Trauma Center.
• Reliability and validity of the six-minute arm test for the evaluation of cardiovascular fitness in people with spinal cord injury
• Robotic-assisted, body-weight-supported treadmill training in individuals following motor incomplete spinal cord injury
• Sports, recreation and employment following spinal cord injury--a pilot study
• Study Warns of Heat Balance Disturbance When Exercising with SCI
• Subject- and injury-related factors influencing the course of manual wheelchair skill performance during initial inpatient rehabilitation of persons with spinal cord injury
• Wheelchair racing efficiency
  

Functional Electric Stimulation (FES)

• A comparison of two breathing exercise programs for patients with quadriplegia.
• Acrocyanosis in a spinal cord injured patient - effects of computer-controlled neuromuscular electrical stimulation: a case report
• Application of ventilatory strategies to enhance functional activities for an individual with spinal cord injury
• Clinical applications of electrical stimulation after spinal cord injury
• Electrically induced and voluntary activation of physiologic muscle pump: a comparison between spinal cord-injured and able-bodied individuals
• Energy consumption of locomotion with orthosis versus Parastep-assisted gait: a single case study
• Functional electric stimulation-assisted rowing: Increasing cardiovascular fitness through functional electric stimulation rowing training in persons with spinal cord injury.
  
• Functional electrical stimulation and lower extremity bracing for ambulation exercise of the spinal cord individual: a medically prescribed system.
• Functional electrical stimulation to enhance cough in quadriplegia
• Local vascular adaptations after hybrid training in spinal cord-injured subjects.
• Rapid vascular adaptations to training and detraining in persons with spinal cord injury.
• Training and detraining of a tetraplegic subject: high-volume FES cycle training
  

Gastrointestinal

• Functional magnetic stimulation facilitates gastric emptying
• The challenge of assessing and diagnosing acute abdomen in tetraplegics: a case study.
• The effect of abdominal massage on bowel function in patients with spinal cord injury.

Genitourinary tract

• A therapeutic trial of acupuncture in neurogenic bladder of spinal cord injured patients--a preliminary report
• An artificial somatic-central nervous system-autonomic reflex pathway for controllable micturition after spinal cord injury: preliminary results in 15 patients
• Antibiotic therapy for patients with spinal cord injury undergoing urologic procedures
  
• Bowel dysfunction following spinal cord injury: a description of bowel function in a spinal cord-injured population and comparison with age and gender matched controls
• Clinical correlates of elevated serum concentrations of cytokines and autoantibodies in patients with spinal cord injury
  
• Chronic suprapubic catheterization in the management of patients with spinal cord injuries: analysis of upper and lower urinary tract complications
• Detection of early squamous metaplasia in bladder biopsies of spinal cord injury patients by immunostaining for cytokeratin 14
• Effect of the trauma mechanism on the bladder-sphincteric behavior after spinal cord injury
• Epididymo-orchitis risk factors in traumatic spinal cord injured patients
• Evaluation of cranberry tablets for the prevention of urinary tract infections in spinal cord injured patients with neurogenic bladder
• Neurogenic bladder management and cutaneous non-continent ileal conduit
• Pathogenesis of bacteriuria and infection in the spinal cord injured patient
• Prevention of urinary tract infection in spinal cord-injured patients: safety and efficacy of a weekly oral cyclic antibiotic (WOCA) programme with a 2 year follow-up--an observational prospective study.
• Recurrent kidney stone: a 25-year follow-up study in persons with spinal cord injury
• Screening cystoscopy and biopsy in patients with neuropathic bladder and chronic suprapubic indwelling catheters: is it valid
• Sphincterotomy and the treatment of detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia: current status, future prospects
• Tamsulosin: efficacy and safety in patients with neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction due to suprasacral spinal cord injury
• The gastrostomy button as a catheterizable urinary stoma: a pilot study
• Urethral reconstruction in spinal cord injury patients
• Urinary infections in patients with spinal cord injury
• Use of Neurologic Examination to Predict Awareness and Control of Lower Urinary Tract Function Post SCI

Health maintenance and health promotion

• Access to breast cancer screening services for women with disabilities
• Achieving effective health promotion for women with disabilities.
• Acute Care Management of Spinal Cord Injuries
• Altered body composition affects resting energy expenditure and interpretation of body mass index in children with spinal cord injury
• Bridging the gap: transitional rehabilitation services for people with spinal cord injury
• Care of morbidly obese people with spinal cord injury. (Continuing Education Offering article with examination and answer/enrollment form)
• Disease prevalence and use of preventive services: comparison of female veterans in general and those with spinal cord injuries and disorders.
• Energy expenditure in chronic spinal cord injury
• Etiology and incidence of rehospitalization after traumatic spinal cord injury: a multicenter analysis
• Health behavior in persons with spinal cord injury: development and initial validation of an outcome measure
• Health needs of women with disabilities across the lifespan.
• Individual and societal influences on participation in physical activity following spinal cord injury: a qualitative study
• Influence of creatine supplementation on 800 m wheelchair performance: a pilot study.
• Lifestyle risks for three disease outcomes in spinal cord injury
• Lifestyle risks for three disease outcomes in spinal cord injury
• Nutritional Management of a Patient with Brain Damage and Spinal Cord Injury
• Nutrition in Acute Spinal Cord Injury
• Nutrition in Spinal Cord Injury Patients
• Reasons for rehospitalization in patients with spinal cord injury: 5 years' experience.
• The physical activity scale for individuals with physical disabilities: development and evaluation **(full article available for a limited time)*
  
• Use of Prolonged Standing for Individuals With Spinal Cord Injuries
  

Internet and computer applications

• Patterns of Internet use by persons with spinal cord injuries and relationship to health-related quality of life
• Spinal cord injury computer-assisted instruction for medical students
• The impact of Internet access for people with spinal cord injuries: a descriptive analysis of a pilot study

Lipids

• Lipid profile in spinal cord-injured women with different injury levels
• Lipid profiles are influenced by arm cranking exercise and training in individuals with spinal cord injury
• Long-term evolution of blood lipid profiles and glycemic levels in patients after spinal cord injury

Osteoporosis

• Bone loss at the os calcis compared with bone loss at the knee in individuals with spinal cord injury
• Effect of sports activity on bone mineral density in wheelchair athletes
  
• Intensive exercise may preserve bone mass of the upper limbs in spinal cord injured males but does not retard demineralisation of the lower body
• Long-term changes in the tibia and radius bone mineral density following spinal cord injury
• Mechanisms of osteoporosis in spinal cord injury
• Osteoporosis after spinal cord injury
• Quantitative ultrasound assessment of acute bone loss following spinal cord injury: a longitudinal pilot study
• Risk factors for osteoporosis at the knee in the spinal cord injury population
• Use of bone biochemical markers with dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry for early determination of bone loss in persons with spinal cord injury

Pain

• Abdominal pain in long-term spinal cord injury
• Acupuncture and rehabilitation of the painful shoulder: study protocol of an ongoing multicentre randomised controlled clinical trial [ISRCTN28687220]. (Full Text available for a limited time!)
• Acupuncture and Trager psychophysical integration in the treatment of wheelchair user's shoulder pain in individuals with spinal cord injury
• Blinding effectiveness and association of pretreatment expectations with pain improvement in a double-blind randomized controlled trial
• Chronic pain after spinal cord injury: a survey of practice in UK spinal injury units
• Chronic pain and nonpainful sensations after spinal cord injury: is there a relation?
• Chronic pain secondary to disability: a review
• Clinical trial of exercise for shoulder pain in chronic spinal injury (Full Article available for a limited time!)
  
• Complex regional pain syndrome--diagnostic, mechanisms, CNS involvement and therapy
• Dorsal root entry zone microcoagulation for spinal cord injury-related central pain: operative intramedullary electrophysiological guidance and clinical outcome
• Effects of IV morphine in central pain: a randomized placebo-controlled study
• Efficacy of amitriptyline for relief of pain in spinal cord injury: results of a randomized controlled trial
• Factors associated with willingness to try different pain treatments for pain after a spinal cord injury
• Gabapentin for neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury.
• Gender and minority differences in the pain experience of people with spinal cord injury
• Investigating neck pain in wheelchair users
• Lamotrigine in spinal cord injury pain: a randomized controlled trial
• Maintenance of exercise participation in individuals with spinal cord injury: effects on quality of life, stress and pain
• Pain characteristics in patients admitted to hospital with complications after spinal cord injury
• Pain classification following spinal cord injury: the utility of verbal descriptors
• Pain Management in a Patient With Intractable Spinal Cord Injury Pain: A Case Report and Literature Review
• Pregabalin: Its Pharmacology and Use in Pain Management
  
• Symptom burden in persons with spinal cord injury
• The amelioration of the suffering associated with spinal cord injury with subperception transcranial electrical stimulation
• The relationship of shoulder pain intensity to quality of life, physical activity, and community participation in persons with paraplegia.
• Upper extremity musculoskeletal pain during and after rehabilitation in wheelchair-using persons with a spinal cord injury
• Upregulation of sodium channel Nav1.3 and functional involvement in neuronal hyperexcitability associated with central neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury
• Use of capsaicin in the treatment of radicular pain in spinal cord injury
  

Quality of life and life satisfaction

• Community participation after spinal cord injury.
• Effects of coping on psychological outcome when controlling for background variables: a study of traumatically spinal cord lesioned persons
• Emotional factors and subjective quality of life in subjects with spinal cord injuries
• Factors associated with health-related quality of life in chronic spinal cord injury (**Free article available for a limited time)
  
• Home is where their wheels are: experiences of women wheelchair users
• Hope in patients with spinal cord injury: a literature review related to nursing.
• Improving the long-term adjustment of spinal cord injured persons
• Life satisfaction in individuals with a spinal cord injury and pain
• Linkages between coping and psychological outcome in the spinal cord lesioned: development of SCL-related measures
• Maintenance of exercise participation in individuals with spinal cord injury: effects on quality of life, stress and pain
• Participation and satisfaction after spinal cord injury: results of a vocational and leisure outcome study.
• Predictors of life satisfaction: a spinal cord injury cohort study
• Quality of life, social participation, appraisals and coping post spinal cord injury: a review of four community samples.
• Quality of sleep in individuals with spinal cord injury: a comparison between patients with and without pain
• Women Living With a Spinal Cord Injury: Perceptions About Their Changed Bodies
  
• Worklife after traumatic spinal cord injury
• Years to employment after spinal cord injury
  

Rehabilitation/Physical Therapy

• Etiology and incidence of rehospitalization after traumatic spinal cord injury: a multicenter analysis
• Inspiratory muscle training in the patient with neuromuscular disease.
• Is the recovery of stepping following spinal cord injury mediated by modifying existing neural pathways or by generating new pathways? a Perspective.
• Neuroanatomical Substrates of Functional Recovery After Experimental Spinal Cord Injury: Implications of Basic Science Research for Human Spinal Cord Injury.
• New rehabilitation interventions in spinal cord injury
• Recovery of supraspinal control of stepping via indirect propriospinal relay connections after spinal cord injury (FREE full text available for a limited time)
• Rehabilitative therapies after spinal cord injury
  
• Restoration of respiratory muscle function following spinal cord injury. Review of electrical and magnetic stimulation techniques.
• Social and environmental enrichment improves sensory and motor recovery after severe contusive spinal cord injury in the rat
  
• The effect of level of spinal cord injury on shoulder joint kinetics during manual wheelchair propulsion
• The effect of two intensities of massage on H-reflex amplitude.
  

Respiratory and Pulmonary

• Acute respiratory tract infection visits of veterans with spinal cord injuries and disorders: rates, trends, and risk factors **(FREE Article available for a limited time)
  
• Breathlessness associated with abdominal spastic contraction in a patient with C4 tetraplegia: a case report.
• Effect of spinal cord injury on the respiratory system
• Glossopharyngeal and neck accessory muscle breathing in a young adult with C2 complete tetraplegia resulting in ventilator dependency.
• Intubation after cervical spinal cord injury: to be done selectively or routinely?
• Mechanical insufflation-exsufflation vs. tracheal suctioning via tracheostomy tubes for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a pilot study
• Pulmonary function in chronic spinal cord injury: a cross-sectional survey of 222 southern California adult outpatients
• Pulmonary function testing in spinal cord injury: effects of abdominal muscle stimulation
• Pulmonary management following acute SCI
• Resistive inspiratory muscle training in sleep-disordered breathing of traumatic tetraplegia
• Respiratory complications of spinal cord injury (**Free article available for a limited time)
  
• Respiratory dysfunction in patients with chronic-onset cervical myelopathy
• Spirometry testing standards in spinal cord injury
• Use of data from nonrandomized trial designs in evidence reports: an application to treatment of pulmonary disease following spinal cord injury

Secondary Complications after SCI

• A database of self-reported secondary medical problems among VA spinal cord injury patients: its role in clinical care and management
• A database of self-reported secondary medical problems among VA spinal cord injury patients: its role in clinical care and management.
• A practical overview of tizanidine use for spasticity secondary to multiple sclerosis, stroke, and spinal cord injury
• Blood pressure changes during sexual stimulation, ejaculation and midodrine treatment in men with spinal cord injury
  
• Effect of seat inclination on seated pressures of individuals with spinal cord injury
• Factors associated with risk for subsequent injuries after traumatic spinal cord injury Free Full Text Available for a limited Time
• Pyrexia due to pyogenic sacroiliitis with iliopsoas abscess after spinal cord injury.
• Secondary Conditions of Spinal Cord Injury Health Education Video Series
• Spinal cord injury medicine. 2. Medical complications after spinal cord injury: Identification and management
• The Tetrafigap Survey on the long-term outcome of tetraplegic spinal cord injured persons: Part III. Medical complications and associated factors
• The use of hydrotherapy for the management of spasticity (full text article)
  

Sexuality and reproductive issues

• American College of Obstetrics and Gynecoloby opinion. Obstetric management of patients with spinal cord injuries. Number 275, September 2002. Committee on Obstetric Practice. American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• A protocol of electroejaculation and systematic assisted reproductive technology achieved high efficiency and efficacy for pregnancy for anejaculatory men with spinal cord injury
• A two-part pilot study of sildenafil (VIAGRA) in men with erectile dysfunction caused by spinal cord injury
• Cervical and breast cancer screening in wheelchair dependent females
• Current trends in the treatment of infertility in men with spinal cord injury.
• Efficacy and safety of sildenafil citrate (Viagra) in men with erectile dysfunction and spinal cord injury: a review
• Motherhood after traumatic spinal cord injury.
• Neurogenic bladder, neurogenic bowel, and sexual dysfunction in people with spinal cord injury
• Removing service barriers for women with physical disabilities: promoting accessibility in the gynecologic care setting.
• Sexual health after spinal cord injury: a longitudinal study
• Sexual esteem, sexual satisfaction, and sexual behavior among people with physical disability
• Sexuality and spinal cord injury.
  
• Spinal cord injured women's views of sexuality: a Norwegian survey

Skin

• An exploration of the occurrence of pressure ulcers in a British spinal injuries unit
• Are all pressure ulcers the result of deep tissue injury? A review of the literature
• Data-based models of how pressure ulcers develop in daily-living contexts of adults with spinal cord injury
• Differential temporal expression of matrix metalloproteinases after spinal cord injury: relationship to revascularization and wound healing
• Efficacy of multiwavelength light therapy in the treatment of pressure ulcers in subjects with disorders of the spinal cord: A randomized double-blind controlled trial
• Long-term prevention of pressure ulcers in high-risk patients: a single case study of the use of gluteal neuromuscular electric stimulation
• Partnering for Prevention: A Pressure Ulcer Prevention Collaborative Project
• Patterns of recurrent pressure ulcers after spinal cord injury: identification of risk and protective factors 5 or more years after onset
• Pressure relief behaviour and the prevention of pressure ulcers in wheelchair users in the community
• Pressure Ulcer Definition and Stages (updated Feb. 2007)
• Use of behavioral contingencies to promote prevention of recurrent pressure ulcers
• Rating Long-Term Care Facilities on Pressure Ulcer Development: Importance of Case-Mix Adjustment **(full text article available)
  

Social and economic participation

• Activity restriction among wheelchair users
• Assessing the influence of wheelchair technology on perception of participation in spinal cord injury
• Barriers, facilitators, and access for wheelchair users: substantive and methodologic lessons from a pilot study of environmental effects
• Environmental factors and their role in participation and life satisfaction after spinal cord injury.
• Participation and satisfaction after spinal cord injury: results of a vocational and leisure outcome study
• Quality of life, social participation, appraisals and coping post spinal cord injury: a review of four community samples
• Restaurant wheelchair accessibility
• Return to work after spinal cord injury: a review of recent research
  

Stress

• Physical benefits of Tai Chi Chuan for individuals with lower-limb disabilities
  
• Stress self-management: an intervention for women with physical disabilities.

Substance abuse

• Post-injury substance abuse among persons with brain injury and persons with spinal cord injury

Last Modified: June 18, 2008