Overground walking patterns after chronic incomplete spinal cord injury show distinct response patterns to unloading.

Background: Body weight support (BWS) is often provided to incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) patients during rehabilitation to enable gait training before full weight-bearing is recovered. Emerging robotic devices enable BWS during overground walking, increasing task-specificity of the locomotor training. However, in contrast to a treadmill setting, there is little information on how unloading is integrated into overground locomotion.

Early urological care of patients with spinal cord injury.

Purpose: After spinal cord injury (SCI), the initial goals of urological management include maintaining safe storage of urine with efficient bladder emptying, maximising urinary continence, and minimising the risk of urological complications.

Methods: This review was performed according to the methodology recommended by the Joint SIU-ICUD International Consultation. Embase and Medline databases were used to identify literature relevant to the early urological care of SCI patients.

Early neurological care of patients with spinal cord injury.

Purpose: Considering the major clinical challenges of managing patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), we summarized the relevant aspects of the early (within 1 year after SCI) neurological care emphasizing common standards.

Methods: This review was performed according to the methodology recommended by the Joint SIU-ICUD International Consultation. Embase and Medline databases were used to identify literature relevant to the early neurological care of SCI patients.