ArticleArchives of physical medicine and rehabilitation2021
Effect of Different Forms of Activity-Based Recovery Training on Bladder, Bowel, and Sexual Function After Spinal Cord Injury.
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- Quality of sexual life in Mexican men after spinal cord injury.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2023Article
- Effects of exercise training on neurological recovery, TGF-β1, HIF-1α, and Nogo-NgR signaling pathways after spinal cord injury in rats.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2023Article
- Targeting bladder function with network-specific epidural stimulation after chronic spinal cord injury.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions for the treatment of spinal cord injury-induced pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Longitudinal Trends and Prevalence of Bowel Management in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation · 2021Observational
- Cardiovascular Responses to Bladder and Bowel Distension after Human Spinal Cord Injury.Neurotrauma reportsArticle
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Abstract
objectivesTo investigate whether the urogenital and bowel functional gains previously demonstrated post-locomotor step training after chronic spinal cord injury could have been derived due to weight-bearing alone or from exercise in general.
designProspective cohort study; pilot trial with small sample size.
settingUrogenital and bowel scientific core facility at a rehabilitation institute and spinal cord injury research center in the United States.
participantsMen and women (N=22) with spinal cord injury (American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale grades of A-D) participated in this study.
interventionsApproximately 80 daily 1-hour sessions of either stand training or nonweight-bearing arm crank ergometry. Comparisons were made with previously published locomotor training data (step; N=7).
main outcome measuresAssessments at both pre- and post-training timepoints included cystometry for bladder function and International Data Set Questionnaires for bowel and sexual functions.
resultsCystometry measurements revealed a significant decrease in bladder pressure and limited improvement in compliance with nonweight-bearing exercise but not with standing. Although International Data Set questionnaires revealed profound bowel dysfunction and marked deficits in sexual function pretraining, no differences were identified poststand or after nonweight-bearing exercise.
conclusionsThese pilot trial results suggest that, although stand and weight-bearing alone do not benefit pelvic organ functions after spinal cord injury, exercise in general may contribute at least partially to the lowering of bladder pressure and the increase in compliance that was seen previously with locomotor training, potentially through metabolic, humoral, and/or cardiovascular mechanisms. Thus, to maximize activity-based recovery training benefits for functions related to storage and emptying, an appropriate level of sensory input to the spinal cord neural circuitries controlling bladder and bowel requires task-specific stepping.
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