Changes in corticospinal facilitation of lower limb spinal motor neurons after spinal cord lesions.

Demonstrating Ipsilateral Cortical Connectivity with Lower-Limb Spinal Motor Neurons

until the end of August 2008. The SINE program is affiliated with the Sensory Motor Performance Program (SMPP) at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) and the Biomedical Engineering program at Northwestern University. I worked in the Neuralplasticity Laboratory, which is a part of the SMPP located at the RIC. I worked under Dr. Stinear and Dr. Madhavan to test protocols developed by my...

Somatosensory evoked potentials after multisegmental lower limb stimulation in focal lesions of the lumbosacral spinal cord.

OBJECTIVES Recording techniques permit the separate analysis of the response from cauda equina roots and the spinal potential that is probably generated by the activation of dorsal horn cells. To improve the functional assessment of focal lesions of the lumbosacral cord, lower limb somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) were measured by multisegmental stimulation. METHODS Common peroneal and ...

Motor cortex and spinal cord neuromodulation promote corticospinal tract axonal outgrowth and motor recovery after cervical contusion spinal cord injury.

Cervical injuries are the most common form of SCI. In this study, we used a neuromodulatory approach to promote skilled movement recovery and repair of the corticospinal tract (CST) after a moderately severe C4 midline contusion in adult rats. We used bilateral epidural intermittent theta burst (iTBS) electrical stimulation of motor cortex to promote CST axonal sprouting and cathodal trans-spin...

The Excitability of Spinal Motor Neurons after Spinal Injuries and Spinal Cord

In experiments on models of spinal injuries and spinal cord in 79 laboratory rats, we found changes in reflexes revealed by electromyographic evaluation of spinal cord function during the recovery process. It is established that the parameters of calf muscle reflex responses change immediately after spinal cord injury and that the severity of changes in motor responses in the late posttraumatic...

Lower Limb Rehabilitation Following Spinal Cord Injury