Open AccessMusculoskeletal Adaptations in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury: Effects of Long-term Soleus Electrical Stimulation Training
Author(s) -
Richard K. Shields,
Shauna DudleyJavoroski
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
neurorehabilitation and neural repair
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.651
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1552-6844
pISSN - 1545-9683
DOI - 10.1177/1545968306293447
Subject(s) - functional electrical stimulation , physical medicine and rehabilitation , spinal cord injury , medicine , stimulation , physical therapy , soleus muscle , rehabilitation , spinal cord , neuroscience , psychology , anatomy , skeletal muscle , psychiatry
The purpose of this study was to determine whether long-term electrical stimulation training of the paralyzed soleus could change this muscle's physiological properties (torque, fatigue index, potentiation index, torque-time integral) and increase tibia bone mineral density.
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