FES Cycling - Fitness after spinal cord injury

FES for breathing support - Using abdominal muscle stimulation to assist ventilator weaning in acute tetraplegia has been the subject of research conducted at the University of Glasgow and the Queen Elizabeth National Spinal Injuries Unit in Glasgow, Scotland. This research was reported recently at the UK IFESS meeting and the UK’s Spinal Cord Injury Research Meeting. Our first client is now using our RehaStim with custom software successfully at home.

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Researchers have shown that artificially stretched nerve "bridges" can guide the natural regrowth of damaged nerve tissue in rats. This technique may eventually provide an effective treatment for people who suffer nerve damage as a result of injury or surgery.

Nerve fibers, called axons, extend from neurons and carry electrical signals around the body. When a nerve is severed, both the axon and its supportive myelin sheath are damaged. Although axons grow back after being severed, they do not do so fast enough, or over sufficient distance, to repair major damage.

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Thanks to our friends in Germany for this story. “My name is Christiane Göldner and I was a young, fun-loving and daring woman before I tumbled 4 meters down. I loved activities in my life …studying, jogging, dancing and traveling.  My climbing accident was caused because one carabiner opened up instead of closing down. As a result I received an upsetting diagnose: From that moment on I was considered as a paraplegic person, paralyzed from T10 down.

Read more: How my life changing process started