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Immobilization And Its Effects On Functional Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury., William H. Gregory
Immobilization And Its Effects On Functional Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury., William H. Gregory
College of Arts & Sciences Senior Honors Theses
Recovery, or rather the failure to recover, is a perplexing issue of spinal cord injury that is currently being investigated. This issue becomes more puzzling when investigating models in which spinal cord injury (SCI) is studied. There appears to be greater functional recovery experienced by animals within these models after injury as compared to patients in the clinical setting. While many things could contribute to this disparity, one difference that stands out when comparing the basic research model and clinical experience of SCI is the inactivity and limb disuse after the injury. This same level of immobility is rarely accounted …