To investigate the effects of plantar cutaneous afferent excitation on the soleus H-reflex and flexion reflex in both subject groups while seated. The flexion reflex in SCI subjects was elicited by ...

This study investigates changes in spinal excitability using peripheral nerve stimulation. We use the Hoffman reflex (H-reflex) to assess segmental changes following a neuroplasticity-priming ...

THE purpose of this paper is to report on the clinical significance of a little known, but constantly occurring, phenomenon in high spinal-cord lesions. Mass sympathetic discharge, occurring either in ...

A careful search for segmentally related cutaneous hemangiomas in a series of 28 patients with spinal-cord arteriovenous malformations revealed six with such an association, a much higher prevalence ...

Cats always land on their feet, but what makes them so agile? Their unique sense of balance has more in common with humans than it may appear. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are ...

Stop scratching: rubbing skin activates an anti-itch pathway in the spinal cord, according to research in mice recently published in JNeurosci. It can be hard to resist the relief of scratching an ...