Why the study?
Does noxious or innocuous sensory stimulation below the lesion trigger increases in blood pressure and sympathetic outflow in people with spinal cord injury?
Population
People with spinal cord injury (SCI) and able-bodied subjects
Comparison
Sensory stimulation below the lesion vs Able-bodied subjects
Design
Other
Authors
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Innocuous abdominal stimuli may trigger blood pressure rises in SCI; leaves open afferent-specific mechanisms of autonomic dysreflexia.
Does noxious or innocuous sensory stimulation below the lesion trigger increases in blood pressure and sympathetic outflow in people with spinal cord injury?
In spinal cord injury, autonomic dysreflexia and increased sympathetic outflow appear to be triggered by activation of large-diameter somatic afferents (innocuous stimuli) rather than small-diameter noxious afferents.
Macefield et al. (2012) studied this question.
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