Clinical Neurophysiological Assessment of Residual Motor Control in Post-Spinal Cord Injury Paralysis

Abstract

Multimuscle surface electromyography patterns recorded during a rigidly administered protocol of motor tasks can be used to differentiate between clinically paralyzed spinal-cord-injured individuals using subclinical motor output to identify the translesional neural connections that remain available for intervention testing and treatment planning after spinal cord injury.