Early and intensive motor training to enhance neurological recovery in people with spinal cord injury: trial protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

Protocol for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial (the SCI-MT trial).

Objectives

To determine whether 10 weeks of intensive motor training enhances neurological recovery in people with recent spinal cord injury (SCI).

Setting

Fifteen spinal injury units in Australia, Scotland, England, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, and Belgium.

Methods

A pragmatic randomised controlled trial will be undertaken. Two hundred and twenty people with recent SCI (onset in the preceding 10 weeks, American Spinal Injuries Association Impairment Scale (AIS) A lesion with motor function more than three levels below the motor level on one or both sides, or an AIS C or D lesion) will be randomised to receive either usual care plus intensive motor training (12 h of motor tr

SUBMITTER: Harvey LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10495259 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature