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Research Aims to Help Patients with Spinal Cord Injury

Newswise — Richard Shields, Ph.D., University of Iowa professor in the Graduate Program in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, can foresee a time when it might be possible to cure spinal cord injury (SCI). However, if SCI patients injured today are to benefit from a future cure, Shield's work may hold a vital key.

Shields and colleagues have found that early intervention and long-term treatment with electrical stimulation, which causes muscle contraction and exerts mechanical loading on the targeted bone...

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/519404/

 

posted @ Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:00 AM by host

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