Category: News & Articles
... exercise therapy holds the best promise to recover movement after injury, as HMRI researcher Dr MICHELLE RANK explains. After a serious spinal cord injury, movement and feeling can be lost completely. Currently ...
Category: News & Articles
... hope of restored muscle function to those suffering paralysis from spinal damage. Exercise therapy research being conducted by the Pain and ... effect of exercise training on interneurons after incomplete spinal cord injury”, won a major NSW Office for Health and Medical Research ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... environment is processed by the nervous system, particularly in the spinal cord and brain stem. In the motor system we study how motor neurons, ... pathways, for example drugs that control spasticity after spinal cord injury, pain, and epilepsy. For our sensory systems, we are interested ...
Category: Research
... in this group looks at the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord and the nerves connecting these structures to the rest of the body. ... of daily living and in circumstances involving dysfunction and or injury. Researchers also work to understand and reduce pain and ...
Category: General
... Graham will provide a summary of his recent discoveries related to spinal cord pain signalling, how these discoveries relate to pathological pain, ... causes of persistent pain are numerous and include peripheral nerve injury, stroke, spinal cord trauma, diabetes, arthritis, and cancer. ...
Category: General
... causes of persistent pain are numerous and include peripheral nerve injury, stroke, spinal cord trauma, diabetes, arthritis, and cancer. Regardless of what ...
Category: Research
... pain that lasts longer than the normal time for healing after an injury (more than 3-6 months). Chronic pain affects 1 in 5 Australians ... complications including opioid abuse or dependency. In some cases, spinal cord stimulator devices are inserted as a drug free alternative ...
Category: News & Articles
... causes of persistent pain are numerous and include peripheral nerve injury, stroke, spinal cord trauma, diabetes, arthritis, and cancer. Regardless of what ...
Category: Research
... remain poorly understood. What we do know is that nerve cells in the spinal cord play an important role in pain signalling because the spinal cord ... whereas the other model reflects neuropathic pain (eg, nerve injury). This will allow us to assess the relevance of each cell type ...
Category: Research
The spinal cord is a key area in pain research as it is the first point in the ... This allows us to follow the properties of specific nerve cells after injury and determine how they contribute chronic pain. My PhD has used this approach to study a population of excitatory spinal nerve cells, characterise the factors that shape their activity, ...
