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Potential benefits of spinal cord stimulation treatment on quality of life for paralyzed patients with spinal cord injury

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severe central nervous system injury that can cause sensory or motor dysfunction. Although mortality rates for people with spinal cord injuries have dropped dramatically with advances in medicine, chronic long-term sequelae after SCI persist. The most bothersome problem...

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Autores principales: Huang, Xiang-Ling, Chen, Yu-Chen, Kuo, Chang-Chih, Tsai, Sheng-Tzung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10227680/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37261296
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tcmj.tcmj_102_22
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Chen, Yu-Chen
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description Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severe central nervous system injury that can cause sensory or motor dysfunction. Although mortality rates for people with spinal cord injuries have dropped dramatically with advances in medicine, chronic long-term sequelae after SCI persist. The most bothersome problems reported by patients include pain, spasticity, urinary dysfunction, and loss of motor function. Thus, quality of life (QoL) is an essential issue in chronic SCI. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) applies an adjustable, nondamaging electrical pulse that can reduce uncomfortable comorbidities and improve mobility, thus enhancing the QoL of patients with SCI. This review summarizes pivotal breakthroughs from SCS for individual clinical impairment from SCI. We conclude that careful evaluation of SCS can help improve neuropathic pain, spasms, motor symptoms, and voiding dysfunction in patients with SCI, thus improving QoL.
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spelling pubmed-102276802023-05-31 Potential benefits of spinal cord stimulation treatment on quality of life for paralyzed patients with spinal cord injury Huang, Xiang-Ling Chen, Yu-Chen Kuo, Chang-Chih Tsai, Sheng-Tzung Tzu Chi Med J Review Article Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severe central nervous system injury that can cause sensory or motor dysfunction. Although mortality rates for people with spinal cord injuries have dropped dramatically with advances in medicine, chronic long-term sequelae after SCI persist. The most bothersome problems reported by patients include pain, spasticity, urinary dysfunction, and loss of motor function. Thus, quality of life (QoL) is an essential issue in chronic SCI. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) applies an adjustable, nondamaging electrical pulse that can reduce uncomfortable comorbidities and improve mobility, thus enhancing the QoL of patients with SCI. This review summarizes pivotal breakthroughs from SCS for individual clinical impairment from SCI. We conclude that careful evaluation of SCS can help improve neuropathic pain, spasms, motor symptoms, and voiding dysfunction in patients with SCI, thus improving QoL. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10227680/ /pubmed/37261296 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tcmj.tcmj_102_22 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Tzu Chi Medical Journal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_fullStr Potential benefits of spinal cord stimulation treatment on quality of life for paralyzed patients with spinal cord injury
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10227680/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37261296
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tcmj.tcmj_102_22
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