Profiling motor control in spinal cord injury: Moving towards individualized therapy and evidence-based care progression

Abstract

Summary

This article, based on the keynote address at the 5th National Spinal Cord Injury Conference in Toronto, addresses methods to neurophysiologically characterize patients after spinal cord injury and proposes how those methods could be used to individualize therapeutic interventions and monitor their efficacy over the course of neurorehabilitation.

Keywords:

• Spinal cord injuries
• Neurorehabilitation
• Evidence based
• Outcomes
• Neurorecovery
• Assessment
• Neurophysiological

Acknowledgement

This article is based on the author's keynote address at the 5th National Spinal Cord Injury Conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in October 2012.