Reliability of S3 pressure sensation and voluntary hip adduction/toe flexion and agreement with deep anal pressure and voluntary anal contraction in classifying persons with traumatic spinal cord injury.

Conclusion: S3P and VHTC show promise as alternatives to DAP and VAC for determining sacral sparing in persons with neurologic levels T10 and above. Reliability and agreement should be evaluated at earlier timepoints and in children with SCI. PMID: 31204908 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31204908?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine - June 19, 2019 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: J Spinal Cord Med Source Type: research