Translumbar and Transsacral Motor-Evoked Potentials: A Novel Test for Spino-Anorectal Neuropathy in Spinal Cord Injury

Abstract

Translumbar and transsacral MEPs revealed significant and hitherto undetected lumbosacral neuropathy in 90% of SCI subjects. Test was safe and provided neuropathophysiological information that could explain bowel dysfunction in SCI subjects.