Spinal stimulation can activate the autonomic nervous system & ⬆️ blood pressure (BP). Authors examine the interpretation of BP changes & if they constitute autonomic dysreflexia (AD). Better defining AD will help standardize research & translate findings. 🧠🔄 🧠📈 🧪 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Characterizing Neurologic Recovery after Acute Complete Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in Relation to Hemodynamic Management with Lumbar Intrathecal Drains journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Is it "Treatment" or "Trouble"? 🔍 Our new review tackles a major debate in #SpinalCordInjury research: How do we define Autonomic Dysreflexia (AD) during spinal cord stimulation? Currently, any systolic BP jump >20 mmHg is labeled AD. But as #NeuroTech evolves, researchers are split… 1/n

“Science not communicated is science not done”. So many key tips in here to effectively share your science and help change the world.

American Physiological Society@apsphysiology.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Love science but absolutely dread speaking to an audience about it? You're not alone. Learn tips from the pros to channel your inner entertainer and knock your next conference talk out of the park. More from Nature: https://ow.ly/APYj50Ye4hH #ProfDev #SciComm #PublicSpeaking 🧪

Defending PhD student, looking over their thesis: “If I knew then what I know now, I could’ve done all of this in like 9 months.” A thread about my favorite pioneering cave explorers and why I don’t think AI will ever “solve” biology.

🚀 Push the frontiers of #RehabMedicine research with the AAP RMSTP! Mentorship. Training. A national network of physician-scientists. Build your research career & shape the future of patient care. 🗓 Apply by Oct 1: zurl.co/58q57

Thinking of writing your first big grant? Can’t recommend this program enough and learned many nuanced approaches I still use today. medschool.cuanschutz.edu/physical-the...

AI integration in spinal cord injury medicine precourse at the ASIA2025 meeting. Led by @peabody124.bsky.social and Dr. Sarah Brueningk. Learning lessons from other successful examples in Cancer, Alzheimer’s, Cardiology.

Nature research paper: Closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation aids recovery from spinal cord injury https://go.nature.com/4mrysC9

Closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation aids recovery from spinal cord injury - Nature

Following spinal cord injury, gamified physical therapy that incorporates closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation can aid restoration of arm and hand function.

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Yeah that was a great session from the American Spinal Cord Injury Association! If you like that session, check out the conference! :) asia-spinalinjury.org

Proud early PI moment. Lab did an amazing job presenting our new work on autonomic neuromodulation for people w/ spinal cord injury at the Minnesota Neuromodulation Symposium Important work coming out on: -cardiac stability w/ spinal stim -biomarkers of spasticity -AD during motor threshold tests

Learn how controlled breathing reduces anxiety and inflammation and how intermittent low oxygen drives plasticity and improves health at this #APS2025 game-changer session: ow.ly/kEZO50VlLfV #WeArePhysiology 🧪 @ameuret.bsky.social

Ground breaking wireless bladder pressure monitor for real world recordings in Journal of Urology. Already yielding results, showing higher pressures during ambulation. This will change how we manage and think about bladder dysfunction after SCI. Sponsored by the now defunded DoD SCIRP grants.

Worth a listen, new podcast from @u2fp.bsky.social with Dr. Andy Taylor on the recently disbanded $40M DoD spinal cord injury research program. This was a unique program which ensured people impacted by SCI were helping make funding decisions based on community priorities. u2fp.org/get-educated...

Collateral Damage (Episode 119)

We are interrupting our regularly scheduled programming with this update on a major setback for SCI research. On March 15th, Congress eliminated an effective Spinal Cord Injury Research program...

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Significant functional improvements in walking speed/endurance for people with spinal cord injury with combined 4-aminopyridine and paired associative stimulation. A great study by Dr. Monica Perez and an All Star group. #SCIrehab 🧪 #phySKYatry academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

Combinatorial approaches increasing neuronal activity accelerate recovery after spinal cord injury

Chen et al. report that patients with spinal cord injury who received treatment with a combination of Hebbian stimulation to strengthen corticospinal synap

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This is really interesting & I hope it holds up to rigorous peer review. With an intervention at 2-4 weeks after acute SCI, considering natural recovery is key. Digital twins are ideal to know typical recovery. Dr. Bruningk’s site will be my first stop when these results hit. hicsci.ethz.ch/tool

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A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury https://go.nature.com/41YLmhC

@ben-petrie.bsky.social gave a great #physiatry2025 presentation on EMG biofeedback for people with spinal cord injury and won first prize! Thanks to the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation for support for this project, and to all of our participants. Excited to share this soon in an upcoming manuscript!

A fun data science competition with unique dataset access for those interested in spinal cord injury research (or who just want to make the world better). Reveal of winning team results will be a highlight of the American Spinal Injury Association precourse this June! 🧪 #SCIrehab #PhySKYatry

R. James Cotton@peabody124.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you interested in data science and spinal cord injury? Looking for an opportunity to explore it? Then I highly recommend checking out the data science challenge organized through ASIA. www.kaggle.com/competitions... www.kaggle.com/competitions...

Every year around now, I start to see grad students on social media bemoan that they’re going home for the holidays to a family that doesn’t understand their research, or what they do in general, and it breaks my heart. 🧵 🧪 #SciComm

🔴Normally, pinkness or redness are an early indication of a pressure ulcer forming but with dark skin tones this often isn't the case. Find out more on our website⬇️ https://buff.ly/3AT1MhQ… #STOPTHEPRESSURE #CheckEveryTone In collaboration with @hudgellsolicitors.bsky.social

Editorial on a critical access issue for individuals with spinal cord injuries. Despite 98% of US physicians using nitro paste as 1st line for autonomic dysreflexia management - this basic med isn’t available in Canada or Latin America. #medSKY #PhySKYatry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Editorial on a critical access issue for individuals with spinal cord injuries. Despite 98% of US physicians using nitro paste as 1st line for autonomic dysreflexia management - this basic med isn’t available in Canada or Latin America. #medSKY #PhySKYatry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Think you know Autonomic Dysreflexia after spinal cord injury? After decades of everyone doing their own thing, we’ve had 20 years consensus definition. But it’s far from perfect. Herein we take a deep dive into where the definition fails and how it might be improved. #Medsky #SCIrehab #PhySKYatry

This is so important… many people make serious sacrifices to attend conferences, an essential part of the research enterprise. These are critical insights.

Pallett Lab UCL@pallettlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

A while back we wrote an article calling for accelerated change in policy for those w/ caring responsibilities in #STEMM Sharing insights into the challenges, highlighting personal experiences & proposing a strategy to improve culture #AcademicSky Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Terrific piece summarizing a recent report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...

Report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns

Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion, according to an

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What people with spinal cord injury wish everyone knew. Credit to my friend Dr. Leanne Rees #SCIrehab

What people with spinal cord injury wish everyone knew. Credit to my friend Dr. Leanne Rees #SCIrehab

Navigating this new territory. Gathering our spinal cord injury community in one place. Holler if you want in (or out) :) #neuroscience go.bsky.app/E6vytRR