Paraplegia may increase susceptibility to ventricular arrhythmias by altering the autonomic control of the heart. Altered cardiac autonomic control has been documented to change the expression of genes that encode cardiac Ca2+ regulatory proteins. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that paraplegia alters cardiac electrophysiology with concomitant changes in Ca2+ regulatory proteins in a manner...

Locomotion therapy on the treadmill has become a standard method for restoring gait after spinal cord injury. Currently used documentation methods mainly focus on neurological [1] and functional [2] aspects of paraplegic locomotion. Only in a few cases, instrumented gait analysis was applied for description of the kinematics of paraplegic gait [3, 4]. On the other hand, biomechanical modeling h...

Objective. To compare the energy expenditure of two types of manual wheelchair propulsion. Design. Experimental and comparative design using matched controls. Background. A new manual wheelchair propulsion technique is proposed to minimize the overload exerted on the upper limb during the classical propulsion. The energy cost and other parameters of this new propulsion technique were evaluated....

A nonlinear autoregressive moving average with exogenous input (NARMAX) model structure is used to develop paraplegic dynamic leg joint model and the result is compared to a model built using artificial neural network (ANN). A series of experiments employing Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) with varying pulse width are conducted to determine the impact of the leg swing angle. The data ob...

Moraxella osloensis osteomyelitis of the femur developed in a paraplegic man. He responded to treatment with oral ampicillin. Disease in humans caused by this unusual clinical isolate is reviewed.