Even when people with incomplete spinal cord injuries can walk, everyday functions like standing, balancing or producing ...

Even when people with incomplete spinal cord injuries can walk, everyday functions like standing, balancing or producing steady force may remain difficult. A new study shows why.

Incomplete spinal cord injuries disrupt motor unit coordination. The nervous system struggles to sync muscles at low effort and overcompensates with rigid signals at high effort.

The findings are published in today's issue of Neuron. Measuring muscle Every move you make is made possible by an electrical handshake between a motor neuron and muscle fibers. When the signal from ...

The MScanFit method assessed changes in motor unit configuration in adult patients undergoing treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). In recent years, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) diagnosis and ...

UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Sports Science Institute of South Africa, Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa Dr R Tucker, UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and ...