Symposium|Neuroorthopädie
Paraplegiologie

Zusammenfassung: Clinical recovery after spinal cord injury (SCI) can be attributed to mechanisms of functional compensation, neural plasticity and/or repair as has been established for other disorders of the central nervous system (CNS), i.e. stroke.

Zusammenfassung: A pneumatically driven orthosis “MoreGait” has been developed for an automated locomotion training at home. It generates the key afferent stimuli for the central pattern generator. First applications in chronic spinal cord injured subjects show significant improvements of gait speed and endurance.

Zusammenfassung: Diaphragm Pacing (DP) can replace ventilators in tetraplegics greatly increasing their quality of life. For any patient on a ventilator, DP would decrease the time on ventilators by maintaining Type 1 muscle fibers and improving posterior lobe lung ventilation.

Zusammenfassung: Robotic devices have been developed to train upper extremity function, especially for patients with stroke, and are currently being applied to patients with quadriplegia. First experiences will be presented on the applicability of the upper extremity robotic devices in quadriplegic patients.