Effect of Different Forms of Activity-Based Recovery Training on Bladder, Bowel, and Sexual Function After Spinal Cord Injury.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate whether the urogenital and bowel functional gains previously demonstrated post-locomotor step training after chronic spinal cord injury could have been derived due to weight-bearing alone or from exercise in general.

Design

Prospective cohort study; pilot trial with small sample size.

Setting

Urogenital and bowel scientific core facility at a rehabilitation institute and spinal cord injury research center in the United States.

Participants

Men and women (N=22) with spinal cord injury (American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale grades of A-D) participated in this study.

Interventions

Approximately 80 daily 1-hour sessions of either stand training or nonweight-bearing arm crank ergometry. Comparisons were made with previo

SUBMITTER: Hubscher CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8084981 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature