Why the study?
Do physiological stimuli elicit different skin vasomotor reflexes above and below the lesion in subjects with chronic complete spinal cord injury compared to controls?
Population
Subjects with clinically complete chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) and controls
Comparison
Physiological stimuli vs Healthy controls
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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SkVR to physiological stimuli may indicate sympathetic pathway integrity in chronic SCI; hypothesis-generating for noninvasive assessment pending validation.
Do physiological stimuli elicit different skin vasomotor reflexes above and below the lesion in subjects with chronic complete spinal cord injury compared to controls?
Measurements of skin vasomotor reflexes to physiological stimuli may serve as a noninvasive method to evaluate the extent of sympathetic adrenergic pathways in chronic spinal cord injury.
Nicotra et al. (2005) studied this question.
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