Taylor P N, Ewins D J, Fox B, Grundy D, Swain I D
Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Odstock Hospital, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
Paraplegia. 1993 May;31(5):303-10. doi: 10.1038/sc.1993.53.
As part of the assessment of the Odstock functional electrical stimulation (FES) standing system for mid to low thoracic lesion spinal cord injured (SCI) subjects, cardiac output, high blood flow and quadriceps muscle thickness were measured before and following an electrical stimulation muscle retraining programme. The same parameters were also measured in a group of uninjured subjects and in SCI subjects. It was found that there was no difference in cardiac output between the groups. However thigh blood flow was found to be around 65% of normal values in the spinally injured group. This returned to normal values following the retraining programme. The quadriceps muscle wasted to approximately 50% of its original thickness in the first 3 weeks following spinal cord injury. The retraining programme increased the muscle thickness to near normal values.
作为对用于中低位胸椎损伤脊髓损伤（SCI）患者的奥德斯托克功能性电刺激（FES）站立系统评估的一部分，在电刺激肌肉再训练计划前后，测量了心输出量、高血流量和股四头肌厚度。在一组未受伤的受试者和脊髓损伤受试者中也测量了相同的参数。结果发现，各组之间的心输出量没有差异。然而，在脊髓损伤组中，大腿血流量约为正常值的65%。在再训练计划后，血流量恢复到正常值。脊髓损伤后的前3周，股四头肌萎缩至其原始厚度的约50%。再训练计划使肌肉厚度增加到接近正常值。
