ArticleSpinal cord series and cases2016
FES-rowing attenuates bone loss following spinal cord injury as assessed by HR-pQCT.
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- The Application of Advanced Bone Imaging Technologies in Sports Medicine.Radiology research and practice · 2023Review
- Development of a High-Power Capacity Open Source Electrical Stimulation System to Enhance Research into FES-Assisted Devices: Validation of FES Cycling.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Effects of Exercise and Activity-Based Physical Therapy on Bone after Spinal Cord Injury.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Effect of External Mechanical Stimuli on Human Bone: a narrative review.Progress in biomedical engineering (Bristol, England) · 2022Article
- Osteoporosis after spinal cord injury: aetiology, effects and therapeutic approaches.Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions · 2021Review
- Bone changes in the lower limbs from participation in an FES rowing exercise program implemented within two years after traumatic spinal cord injury.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2020Article
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- MRI analysis and clinical significance of lower extremity muscle cross-sectional area after spinal cord injury.Neural regeneration research · 2017Review
- Garments for functional electrical stimulation: Design and proofs of concept.Journal of rehabilitation and assistive technologies engineeringArticle
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Neurologically motor complete spinal cord injury (SCI) presents a unique model of bone loss whereby specific regional sites are exposed to a complete loss of voluntary muscle-induced skeletal loading against gravity. This results in a high rate of bone loss, especially in the lower limbs where trabecular bone mass decreases by ~50-60% and cortical bone mass decreases by 25-34% before the rate of bone loss slows. These SCI-induced losses that are likely superimposed on continual age-related bone losses, increase the risk of low-impact fragility fracture. The fracture incidence 20 years post SCI is reported to be 4.6% per year. An intervention that effectively prevents, attenuates, or reverses bone loss is therefore highly desirable. We present a case study of an individual with chronic complete SCI, where bone loss has been attenuated following long-term functional electrical stimulation (FES)-rowing training. In this case study, we characterize the ultradistal tibia and ultradistal radius of the FES-rower with chronic complete SCI using high-resolution-peripheral quantitative computed tomography. These data are compared with a group of FES-untrained individuals with chronic complete SCI and to a normative non-SCI cohort. The evidence suggests, albeit from a single individual, that long-term FES-rowing training can attenuate bone loss secondary to chronic complete SCI. Indeed, key FES-rower's bone metrics for the ultradistal tibia more closely resemble normative age-matched values, which may have clinical significance since the majority of fragility fractures in chronic SCI occur in the lower extremities.
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