Characterizing spinal reflexes evoked by sensory spinal cord stimulation in people with lower-limb amputation - Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation Background People with lower-limb amputation lack sensory inputs from their missing limb, which increases their risk of falling. We recently demonstrated that spinal cord stimulation (SCS) can restore...

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JNER: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
JNE: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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In one participant, we observed reduction in co-contraction of knee antagonist muscles and increase in hip abductors, thereby improving pelvic obliquity range-of-motion and pelvic drop over time.
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These reflexes are also present during walking, but do not disrupt their gait patterns
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The evoked reflex activity was larger for muscles in the myotomes corresponding to the location of the SCS electrode
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Rate dependent depression confirms that SCS evokes reflex activity in the residual muscles
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New publication alert!📣

We are thrilled to share two new papers that were published in JNE and JNER. We characterized the effect of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for sensory restoration on spinal reflexes in individuals with lower-limb amputation
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