Curt
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | European multicenter study for human spinal cord injury (EM-SCI) | ||||||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | Today there is accumulating evidence from animal experiments that regeneration can be induced after a spinal cord injury (SCI). Consequently in the near future, new therapeutic approaches to induce some regeneration will be included in the treatment of patients with SCI. The aim of this proposal is to provide the required clinical basis for the implementation of novel interventional therapies. The establishment of combined clinical, functional and neurophysiological measures for a qualitative and quantitative assessment of spinal cord function in patients with SCI at different stages during rehabilitation represents a basic requirement to monitor any significant effect of a new treatment. Therefore, several European Paraplegic Centres involved in the rehabilitation of acute traumatic SCI patients build up a close collaboration for standardised assessment. The aim is to get knowledge about the natural recovery after spinal cord lesion in a larger population of patients in the sense of a historical control group and to bring new standardised assessment tools to the clinical setting. | ||||||
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| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | Spinal Cord Injury, Rehabilitation | ||||||
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| Other links to external web pages | http://www.emsci.org | ||||||
| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Foundation International Institute for Research in Paraplegia (IFP) |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Nov 2001 to Jun 2011 |