The prescription of treatment systems which include orthoses to enable patients with high level thoracic spinal lesions to walk reciprocally is now widely practised. It remains a clinical option for which the efficacy is frequently called into question. A broad range of experience has now been accumulated with orthoses of this type, and this is reflected in the literature. The indications for p...

Average 29 1y1m 3y7m 25 Abstract-Clinical application of FES using percutaneous intramuscular electrodes in paraplegia was described. Maximum duration of continuous standing was 150 minutes and maximum distance of continuous walking was 300m with hybrid FES. Only one electrode broke (0.6%). There were 5.6% of movement of electrodes and 5.6% of superficial infections. However, the ultrafine intr...

Lower-limb FES cycling for paraplegic and tetraplegic subjects has been previously described, with systems for both stationary ergometry and for mobile outdoor cycling being available. The potential therapeutic and medical benefits of FES cycling exercise have recently been surveyed [1]. A key finding is that regular FES cycling exercise leads to improved cardiopulmonary fitness, with a corresp...

1,2 Ursina Arnet, 1,2 Stefan van Drongelen, 3 Luc van der Woude and 2, 4 DirkJan Veeger 1 Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil, Switzerland, 2 Research Institute MOVE, Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3 Center for Human Movement Sciences, Center for Rehabilitation, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, 4 Department...

1 Swiss Paraplegic Research, Guido A. Zäch-Strasse 4, 6207 Nottwil, Switzerland; [email protected] (J.E.B.); [email protected] (A.C.) 2 Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK 3 Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (IBE), Chair for Public Health and Health Services Research, Research Unit...

in this study, 10 normal volunteers and 5 sports-trained paraplegics with lesions between t6 and l2 were studied whilst walking with axillary crutches and knee-anlde-foot orthoses. all subjects walked at their preferred speed on a figureof- eight track. normal subjects also walked at slower and faster speeds. oxygen consumption, heart rate and rating of perceived exertion were measured. in norm...

This paper concerns oniy the immediate treatment of paraplegia from fracturedislocations of the spine at the thoraco-lumbar level. It is based on experience gained in the treatment of sixty-eight patients of whom forty-seven were treated by us from the beginning and twenty-one were admitted to the paraplegic centre several weeks or months after injury. From this experience we have reached certa...

The article describes in detail an arrangement of trough-shaped wheel ramps and telescoping articulating control rods intended to allow a wheelchair-bound paraplegic to quickly ascend and descend single steps or curbs as high as 8 in. Data on testing of the system with trained and untrained able-bodied male and female subjects is reported; very limited testing with paraplegics suggests that the...

THE care of paraplegics has always been a major nursing problem; many methods have been used, but most of these are difficult, complicated and time consuming. When, in 1937, an American, Dr. Homer Stryker of Michigan University, developed the Stryker frame he solved many of these nursing problems, and the U.S. Army and Naval hospitals proved its worth during the 1939-1945 world war. Today, Amer...