Why the study?
Can sympathetic skin response evoked by electrical stimulation evaluate peripheral sympathetic nerve activity in patients with spinal cord injury?
Population
17 healthy volunteers and 14 patients with spinal cord injury (total n=31)
Comparison
Sympathetic skin response evoked by electrical… vs Healthy volunteers
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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SSR may support sympathetic assessment in SCI; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Can sympathetic skin response evoked by electrical stimulation evaluate peripheral sympathetic nerve activity in patients with spinal cord injury?
Sympathetic skin response can be used to evaluate functional abnormalities of the sympathetic nervous system in patients with spinal cord lesions.
Ogura et al. (2004) studied this question.
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