Changes of Parameters of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Patients With Spinal Cord Injury

National Taiwan University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Spinal Cord Injury

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00228085

9461700907

Details and patient eligibility

About

CNS reorganization is evidenced in patients with CNS lesion, no exception to the patients with spinal cord injury. The paraplegics have to increase their loading of upper extremities to compesate the lost function of lower extremities. We hypothesize that CNS reorganization can happen in the chronic paraplegics. We try to compare the changes of parameters of transcranial magnetic stimulation in these patients with the normal population cross-sectionally.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients with complete thoracic spinal cord injury
• onset > 6 months
• ASIA scale: A
• normal bilateral upper extremities

Exclusion criteria

• Evidence of brain injury
• Evidence of peripheral neuropathy
• Active major medical diseases (eg: fever, maligancies, DM, liver or kidney diseases)