Info Balgrist Spinal Cord Injury Center
The Spinal Cord Injury Center at the Balgrist University Hospital is an internationally acknowledged rehabilitation centre for patients amongst spinal cord injury (SCI). It comprises a forty beds clinical unit of measurement as well as is linked excellently amongst its enquiry facilities, located inwards the same building.
The focus of our enquiry is the optimization as well as farther evolution of existing as well as novel interventions for patients amongst a spinal cord injury (SCI). Patients amongst SCI written report that their priorities for recovery are bladder as well as bowel management as well as mitt business office inwards patients amongst high cervical lesions. Both also the recovery of walking business office is highly appreciated. Indeed, also other interests, these topics are covered past times our enquiry groups.
Our enquiry is inwards full general focussed on how the key nervous arrangement reacts to the status subsequently SCI past times investigating plastic changes inwards the sensory – motor as well as autonomic nervous arrangement inside the encephalon as well as spinal cord. Furthermore, nosotros are interested how preparation interventions could exploit this plasticity to ameliorate the functional outcome as well as independence of the patient. One focus of our lab is, inwards collaboration amongst the SMS Lab (ETHZ) as well as Hocoma AG, to develop and/or ameliorate rehabilitation robotics for the upper as well as lower extremity as well as investigate their termination on the functional independence of our patients. We are also involved inwards clinical studies investigating security of the anti-NOGO antibody, which should growth plasticity as well as regeneration of the damaged spinal cord (more information).
Improvement inwards preparation strategies tin plough over the sack solely live performed if adequate as well as sensitive outcome measures are available. Therefore, nosotros develop as well as examination the mightiness of neurological, neuro-physiological as well as functional outcome measures to notice pocket-sized changes inwards our patients, which is required for clinical studies, but also the relevance of these changes for the functional status of the patient. Indeed, nosotros are the leading centre inwards an international collaboration evaluating outcome measures (www.emsci.org).