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Special Symposium

Spinal Cord Injury

Neuroplasticity

SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: Targeting Neuroplasticity After Spinal Cord Injury S15

Sunday, November 3, 2024
8:15 AM – 9:15 AM  
Location:  ROOM: Cortez B REGION: Tower Lobby Level >>> DIRECTIONS: From ACRM Registration desk, face the elephants and turn right. Proceed past the lobby elevators and turn right to enter the West Wing. Proceed down the corridor, turn right and then left. Proceed past the restrooms to the end of the hall and turn right. Proceed down the corridor on the left. Cortez B is the last room on the left.
Targeting neuroplasticity is a key aspect of restoring motor function after SCI. Different rehibition strategies become available either via directly or indirectly activating the central or residual neural pathways. Multi-site dependent plasticity has emerged to enhance synaptic restoration of upper and lower extremity motor functions. Researchers have explored different avenues to allow target stimulation of specific motor functions. This has required further exploration into the stimulation configurations that elicit different motor recruitment patterns and how to effectively to translate such patterns into motor behavior. The symposium will have three different investigators with different backgrounds in neuro restoration following SCI.

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Learning Objectives:

  • We will discuss mechanisms and functional effects of targeted spike-timing dependent plasticity
  • We will discuss strategies of spinal stimulation to promote selected motor functions.
  • We will highlight how different stimulation configurations may alter the recruitment pattern to achieve different motor behaviors.
  • We will discuss mechanisms and functional effects of targeted spike-timing dependent plasticity
Disclosure(s):
Monica A. Perez, PT, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose
Dimitry Sayenko: No financial relationships to disclose