Abstract:One of the major clinical problems associated with spinal cord injury (SCI) is the lack of animal's ability to maintain weight support during standing or walking. We hypothesize that following SCI there is reorganization of the postural limb reflexes driven by stretch and load receptors in addition to loss of excitatory inputs from supraspinal structures to spinal interneurons that could result in altered intermuscular interactions. In control decerebrate animals there is a proximal to distal gradient in the s… Show more
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