ABSTRACTS for 2004 meeting


  ORAL PRESENTATIONS
O01 Typical gait patterns in patients with incomplete spinal cord injury: assessment with 3D gait analysis
O02 DIAGNOSTIC SYMPTOMS OF SCI-PATIENTS WITH SYRINGOMYELIA
O03 Influence of spasticity on bone parameters of lower extremities in spinal cord injury
O04 Active Cycling in incomplete spastic paraplegia during primary rehabilitation: Time profile of pathological muscle activation pattern
O05 FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES FOLLOWING BOTULINUM TOXIN IN SPINAL CORD INJURY
O06 ANTISPASTIC EFFECT OF PENILE VIBRATION IN SPINAL CORD LESIONED MEN
O07 SURGICAL TREATMENT OF PAINFUL SPASTICITY AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY
O08 THE EFFECT OF PENILE VIBRATORY STIMULATION ON SPASTICITY IN SPINAL CORD INJURED MEN
O09 Managing SCI: The First 72 Hours
O10 Prevention of venous thromboembolism in the acute phase after spinal cord injury: a randomized multicentre trial comparing low-dose heparin plus intermittent pneumatic compression with enoxaparin
O11 Prevention of venous thrombo-embolism in the rehabilitation phase after spinal cord injury (SCI): prophylaxis with low-dose heparin or enoxaparin
O12

Determining the duration of anticoagulation in patients with spinal cord injury at risk for venous thrombo-embolism

O13 Blockage of interleukine-6 receptor ameliorates functional recovery in spinal cord injury 
O14 PROTOCOL OF SCREENING AND NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT IN PATIENTS WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY (SCI)
O15 Spinal Cord injury registry for cervical spinal cord injuries in New South Wales Rugby Union and Rugby League players who have suffered permanent neurological deficit
O16 DEVELOPMENT OF AN EVIDENCE-BASED WHEELCHAIR PRESENTER PROGRAM IN SCHOOLS TO ADDRESS RISK-TAKING AND INJURY PREVENTION  
O17 Quality of life of people with spinal cord injuries: a comparative study of three community samples.
O18 Health Status, Community Integration and Economic Risk Factors for Mortality After Spinal Cord Injury
O19 Factors predicting quality of life among people with long-term spinal cord injury
O20 Life after Spinal Cord Injury: Ranked Priorities Identified by British Columbians with SCI living in the Community
O21 Urinary calculi following traumatic spinal cord injury
O22 Environmental Factors and Their Role in Participation and Life Satisfaction After Spinal Cord Injury
O23 Physical Activity and Fitness: Priorities Identified by Persons Living with Spinal Cord Injury
O24 Cardiovascular disease and risk factors among individuals with chronic spinal cord injury
O25 NEUROGENIC DETRUSOR OVERACTIVITY IN SPINAL CORD INJURIED (SCI) PATIENTS: FIVE YEARS EXPERIENCE USING ENGLISH BOTULINUM-TOXIN-A TREATMENT
O26 Spinal-Injured Neuropathic Bladder Antisepsis (SINBA) Trial
O27 EFFECTS OF BOTULINUM TOXIN INJECTION IN THE DETRUSOR MUSCLE OF PATIENTS WITH SPINAL INJURIES ON URETERIC REFLUX
O28 CORRELATION BETWEEN NEUROLOGICAL DATA, BLADDER MANAGEMENT AND URODYNAMIC FUNCTION IN TRAUMATIC SPINAL CORD INJURED PATIENTS
O29 Impacts of Functional Improvement after Olfactory Ensheathing Cells Transplantation for Chronic Spinal Cord Injury
O30 PERRUIN-VERBE
O31 A longitudinal evaluation of sleep and breathing following cervical spinal cord injury
O32 Treatment of bowel dysfuction in patients with spinal cord injuries/diseases with Macrogol 3350 plus electrolytes (Movicol®) 
O33 Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a national spinal cord injury center: A 10 years’ prospective study including molecular typing
O34 High prevalence of incontinence in adolescents with spina bifida
O35 Renal function and morphology in adults with meningomyelocele
O36 LONGSTANDING PAIN IN ADULTS WITH SPINA BIFIDA 
O37 Ambulation in adult spina bifida (SB). Is it possible to predict the level of ambulation in early life
O38 Social and personal life outcome for adults with Spina Bifida
O39 Relationships and sex life in young adults with spina bifida
O40 MOBILITY AIDS AND TRANSPORT POSSIBILITIES 10-45 YEARS AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY (SCI)
O41 VOLUNTARY MOVEMENTS IN SPITE OF COMPLETE SPINAL CORD INJURY  
O42 DEVELOPMENT OF A METHODOLOGY FOR THE FUNCTIONAL EVALUATION OF DISABLED DRIVERS
O43 Walking and other functions preference in spinal cord injury patients: consumers vs. professionals
O44 Motor Recovery, Functional Status and Health Related Quality of Life in Complete Spinal Cord Injuries (CSCI)
O45 Pain in People with Long Standing Spinal Cord Injury
O46 SURVEY OF THE USE OF STANDING APPARATUS – IMPACT OF ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION SECONDARY TO SPINAL CORD INJURY
O47 Quality of life measurements among male Israeli paraplegics
O48 Long term urological outcome of paediatric spinal cord injury
O49 Reliability Levels of the ASIA Motor and Sensory Examination in Physician versus Physical Therapist Examiners
O50 Accuracy of ASIA Impairment Scale of Spinal Cord Injury Using the 2002 Standards
O51 Neurological and functional outcome in patients with traumatic central cord syndrome
O52 Perceptual threshold to cutaneous electrical stimulation in patients with spinal cord injury
O53 Advantages of Phrenic Nerve Stimulation Treatment for patients with high-levelled tetraplagia
O54 RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF DANISH TETRAPLEGIA HAND FUNCTION TEST IN A FOUR COUNTRY MULTICENTER STUDY
O55 Prospective Validity and Responsiveness to Change of the Walking Scale for Spinal Cord Injury (WISCI) in a Randomized Clinical Trial
O56 Psychometric Analysis of a Clinically Focussed Measure of Outcome: The Needs Assessment Checklist (NAC)
O57 A Longitudinal Analysis of Psychological Impact , Coping Strategies and Post Traumatic Psychological growth following SCI: The First Ten Years
O58  Neuropsychological complications in and treatment of patients with a severe degree of tetraplegia – outcome measures
O59 Comparison between fetal spinal cord-and forebrain-derived neural stem/progenitor cells as a source of transplantation for spinal cord injury
O60  Flaccid paraplegia following proliferation of intrathecally administered fetal stem cells
O61  In Vitro Investigation Of Heat Transfer In Calf Spinal Cord During Polymethylmethacrylate Application For Vertebral Body Reconstruction
O62 ACONTRACTILE DETRUSOR IN SUPRASACRAL SPINAL CORD LESION
O63 SERUM CYSTATIN C AS A MARKER OF RENAL FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY
O64 Autonomic Disreflexia: Provokative Testing For Early Diagnosis and Management
O65 Sweating Response in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury
O66 Vascular Changes in Spinal Cord Injured Individuals After 4 Weeks Training With a Hybrid FES-Cycle Ergometer
O67 BWS therapy for spinal cord injury patients: backward and in place stepping
O68 SEXUAL AND AFFECTIVE LIFE DURING AND AFTER REHABILITATION: FROM MEDICAL TO PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH
O69 A model for combined bladder emptying and neuromodulation using independent anterior and posterior sacral nerve stimulation 
O70 Medical Complications vis-à-vis Psychosocial complications in SCI patient: A case Report
O71 Complementary (non-pharmacological) pain relieving therapies in spinal cord injured individuals: a patient perspective
O72 Mortality and causes of death after traumatic spinal cord injury in Norway – 1961-2002
O73 Heterotopic ossification in patients with traumatic medullar injury: association with HLA-system antigens
O74 False positive results of procalcitonin measurements in patients with paraplegia or quadriplegia
O75 Augmented Circadian Variation in Plasma Leptin Levels in Subjects with Complete Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
O76 Has the change of urinary management influenced on upper urinary track complications in patients with neurogenic bladder? : 9 years experience in Korean National Rehabilitation Hospital
O77 Pediatric Spine and Spinal Cord Injury in Istanbul: A Retrospective analysis of 106 Patients
O78 The Sollerman test for evalution of result after tendon transfers in tetraplegia
O79 SPINAL CORD INJURIES DUE TO DIVING ACCIDENTS
O80 Quantifying rehabilitation of locomotor skills in incomplete spinal cord injury

  POSTER PRESENTATIONS
P01 Further Experience of Intrathecal Phenol Block of Lumbar Nerves to Improve QOL of Spastic Tetraplegia
P02 Intrathecal Phenol for Severe Spasticity Following Spinal Cord Injury
P03 Relationship between Self- and Clinically Rated Spasticity in Spinal Cord Injury
P04 The role of Botulinum toxin A injection in the management of calf muscles spasticity in ambulating patient with spinal cord injury
P05 EVALUATION OF SPASTICITY IN TRAUMATIC SPINAL CORD INJURY PATIENTS
P06 BACLOFEN WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME IN A PATIENT WITH INTRATECHAL BACLOFEN PUMP PRESENTING AS RECURRENT AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA ATTACKS
P07

THE EFFECT OF BOTULINUM TOXIN ? (BTA) IN SPASTICITY OF LOWER LIMBS IN PATIENTS WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY (SCI ) /SPINAL CORD LESION(SCL)

P08 THE FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME AFTER BOTULINUM TOXIN A (BTA) INJECTION IN LOWER LIMBS OF PATIENTS WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY(SCI) / SPINAL CORD LESION (SCL)
P09 Experience in managing spinal focal spasticity with Botulinum Neuro Toxin 
P10 Project for Botulinum ToxinTherapy (BT2) Clinic to adult focal problematic spasticity in spinalcord injures
P11 Functional improvement of patients with excessive spasticity after botulin toxin injection
P12 Effects of methylprednisolone and erythropoietin on experimental spinal cord injuries
P13 The effects of systemically administered of methylprednisolone and recombinant human erythropoietin in rats after spinal cord ischemic injury
P14 Critical evulation of the modern guidelines for spinal tauma management
P15 A New Idea for less Invasive Stabilisation in Spinal cord injury Patients
P16 The influence of factors associated with deterioration of respiratory function in the Acute Cervical Spinal Cord Injured patients, requiring early intervention
P17 Five years of experience in the treatment of spasticity in spinal cord injuries with intrathecal baclofen
P18 Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) – Care Guidelines for the First 72 Hours
P19 Complications in Early Rehabilitation Period of Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries
P20 INCOMPLETE SPINAL CORD INJURIES: SOME DATA AND CONSIDERATIONS ON WALKING RECOVERY
P21 Analysis of life activities of patients after spinal cord injuries in Croatia
P22 CHRONIC PAIN AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY. PREVALENCE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS
P23 A Study on the Unmet Needs of Persons with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
P24 Improving the Quality of Life for People with SCI through qualitative research
P25 Bone loss following spinal cord injury
P26 Use of Alendronate in management of osteoporosis following spinal cord injury: A report of 4 cases
P27 The Standing Exercise and Gait using KAFO (Knee Ankle Foot Orthosis) of the Paraplegics after Discharge in Korea
P28 A MULTICENTRE FOLLOW-UP ON TRAUMATIC SPINAL CORD INJURY PERSONS FOUR YEARS AFTER DISCHARGE (GISEM FU): CLINICAL ASPECTS
P29 PAIN IN SPINAL CORD INJURY. A STUDY OF THE CHARACTERISTICS AND THE EXACERBATING FACTORS
P30 Treatment of pressure ulcers in SCI patients. A single case report
P31 SPORTS & RECREATION VS ANXIETY & DEPRESSION FOLLOWING SPINAL CORD INJURY
P32 Traumatic instability of craniocervical junction neurological complication – pentaplegia up-to-date diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation procedures
P33 Does neurologically complete spinal cord injury also mean a complete injury of the descending autonomic pathways in man?
P34 Quality of Life in Spinal Cord Injury Patients: Results of an Italian Survey
P35 DISABILITY, LIFE SATISFACTION AND OBJECTIVE QUALITY OF LIFE IN TRAUMATIC SPINAL CORD INJURED PATIENTS WITH COMPLETE LESIONS DURING CHRONIC PERIOD
P36 LIFE AFTER SCI IN INDIA – RESULTS OF A SURVERY OF 53 CENTRES
P37 LIFE AFTER SCI IN THE INDIAN POPULATION – SPINAL INJURED’S PERSPECTIVE 
P38 Functional and social aspects of lower extremity fractures
P39 Quality of the Last Years of Life with Spinal Cord Injury
P40 PARTICIPATION IN WORK AMONG PERSONS WITH TRAUMATIC SPINAL CORD INJURY (SCI) AND MENINGOMYELOCELE (MMC)
P41 EMPLOYMENT AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY
P42 Bone loss study in acute spinal cord injury /lesion (SCI /SCL)
P43 Employment Following Spinal Cord Injury
P44 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA AND LENGTH OF STAY (LoS) OF SPINAL CORD INJURED PATIENTS
P45 INITIAL INFORMATION OF SPINAL CORD INJURED PATIENTS AND THEIR RELATIVES DURING ADMISSION IN REHABILITATION UNIT
P46 BEHAVIOR OF SCI PATIENTS AND THEIR RELATIVES DURING DISCHARGE FROM REHABILITATION UNIT
P47 HOUSE ADAPTATIONS AND MODIFICATIONS IN SCI PATIENTS (3 years follow up)
P48 PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL ACTIVITIES IN SCI PATIENTS (3 years follow up)
P49 ADAPTATIONS AND MODIFICATIONS AT WORKING ENVIROMENT IN SCI PATIENTS (3 years follow up)
P50 USE OF ORTHOTICS (KAFOs) AND WHEELCHAIR IN SCI PATIENTS (3 years follow up)
P51 “Active in wheelchair” Courses at Beitostølen Healthsportcenter, Norway
P52 Active Whelchair Camp: A Strategy For Enhancement Of Living Skills For Persons With Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
P53 Influence of stand-up techniques in the change of functional ability of paraplegic
P54 The effects of four weeks of daily stretch on extensibility of hamstring muscles in people with spinal cord injuries: a randomised trial
P55 Study of effectiveness of bronchial clearence in subjects with upper spinal cord injuries. Examination of a rehabilitation programme involving mechanical insufflation and exsufflation
P56  Transdermic fentanil and neurogenic pain: comparative study
P57 Demographic Datas Collected From Acute Rehabilitaton Clinic Of Turkish Armed Forces (Taf) Rehabilitation Center Between Years 2003-2004
P58 The characteristics and mechanisms of the cardiovascular response to arousal and apnoea from sleep in quadriplegia 
P59 Metabolic neuroimaging of the cervical spinal cord in patients with compressive myelopathy: A high-resolution positron emission tomography study
P60 Body weight support treadmill (BWST) training for paraplegia-patient in poor postoperative course
P61 COMPARATIVE INVESTIGATION OF TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PROFILE OF APOPTOSIS AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY (SCI) IN RATS AND HUMANS
P62 Autologous macrophage therapy in patients with complete spinal cord injuries: Phase I experience
P63 The variation of respiratory values, VC (vital capacity) and FEV1 (forced expiratory volume in 1sec) according to injury level and posture
P64  Weekly biphophonate for prevention of osteoporosis in patients with spinal cord injury
P65 Olfactory Ensheathing Cell Transplantation for Chronic Spinal Cord Injury --Relationship between Functional Improvement and Injured Types
P66 Is amenorrhea following SCI due to increased prolactine levels?
P67 Effects of abdominal binders on FVC and FEV1 in patients with tetraplegia and high paraplegia
P68 Effects of abdominal binders on FVC and FEV1 in patients with tetraplegia and high paraplegia
P69 Pressure Over The Kyphus In Spina Bifida Patients
P70 Urodynamics findings in children with Tethered cord syndrome - Our experience
P71 DIAGNOSTIC PROTOCOL AND TREATMENT OF CHILDREN WITH TETHERED SPINAL CORD SYNDROME
P72 MALONE ANTEGRADE CONTINENCE ENEMA (ACE) AND PREPUTIAL CONTINENT VESICOSTOMY (PCV) IN NEUROPATHIC PATIENTS
P73 Secondary impairments in young adults with spina bifida
P74 A modification of sacral anterior root stimulated micturition in Asian spinal cord injured patients based on intra-operative stimulated study and anatomical measurement
P75 Combined Cross Rhizotomy of Anterior and Posterior Sacral Root in Spinal Cord Injury for Bladder Reservoir Function: Canine Experimental Study and Preliminary Clinical Report
P76 FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION FOR CONTROL OF ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION IN SPINAL CORD INJURED PATIENTS
P77 Comparative randomised cross-over evaluation of a modern catheter SpeediCath® with conventional catheters Lofric® and EasiCath®
P78 Long-term efficacy of AMS 800 artificial urinary sphincter in male patients with urodynamic stress incontinence due to spinal cord injury and transverse myelitis
P79 A SIMPLE DEVICE FOR OPERATING A PERSONAL COMPUTER BY CHIN AND LOWER LIP ,IN HIGH CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURIES
P80 Potential cardiopulmonary benefits of functional electrical stimulation (FES) assisted arm-cranking exercise in tetraplegia
P81 Cardiovascular Fitness and Gait Analysis after Manual-Assist and Robotic-Driven Treadmill Training in Patients with Incomplete Spinal Cord Injuries
P82 Walking Training with FES(Functional Electrical Stimulation) in Low Tetraplegic Patients
P83 ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR MOBILITY AND SELF CARE – A DISTANT DREAM FOR THE INDIAN SCI POPULATION
P84 Automatic electrical stimulation of abdominal muscles to increase tidal volume and cough peak flow rates in tetraplegia
P85 A NOVEL HYBRID FES MEDIAL LINKAGE ORTHOSIS FOR GAIT AFTER SCI
P86 Impairments, activities, and participation after spinal cord injury in Nepal and Canada – opportunities for improvement
P87 Quantifying the magnitude of stretch torque applied by physiotherapists to the hamstring muscles of people with spinal cord injury
P88 Effect of hand cycle training on physical capacity in persons with a tetraplegia
P89 Event and time sequence for efficiency evaluation of institutional management of acute SCI (A proposal) 
P90 Comparison between initial and definitive findings in patients with spinal cord injury by ASIA scale in children up to 14 years of age
P91 Effect Of Volitional Control Over The Urinary Bladder Guarding Reflex In Complete Spinal Cord Injury
P92  
P93 Reliability and Validity of the SF-36 on people with Spinal Cord Injury
P94 Autonomic nervous system and renal function: remaining risk - possible assessment tool?
P95 Prevalence and Risk Factor Evaluation of Deep Vein Thrombosis in Spinal Cord Injury
P96 Reliability and Validity of Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique – Short Form (CHART-SF) Chinese Version
P97 Test-retest Reliability of the Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique Japanese version (CHART-J) for individuals with Spinal Cord Injury in Japan
P98 LIFE WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY AFTER SEVEN YEAR
P99 Rehabilitation of Geriatric Patients with SCI - Problems, Experiences, Prognosises
P100 Outcomes in ventilated older patients with spinal injury: A twelve year review
P101 Evaluation of Basal Status –a new concept to evaluate SCI patients
P102 Possibilities and Limits of Complex Rehabilitation Treatment for Whiplash in the Cervical Spine after Car Accidents
P103 Characteristics of Spinal Cord Injury due to Attempted Suicide in Japan
P104 ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, ETIOLOGIC FACTOR OF TRAUMATIC SPINAL CORD INJURY
P105 Clean intermittent catheterisation improves renal function
P106 Website of physiotherapy exercises for people with spinal cord injury
P107 Is a ventral reconstruction of unstable fractures of the thoracic spine necessary?
P108 Cyclooxygenase-2 induction after spinal cord injury in humans
P109 Cyclooxygenase-2 induction was mediated by proinflammatory cytokines after spinal cord injury in rats
P110 Iraqi National Spinal Cord Injuries Centre Twice Subjected to Complete Destruction Since Last War But We Refunctioned It Again
P111 FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION OF THE LOWER THORACIC NERVE ROOTS FOR ASSESSMENT OF SPINAL COLUMN DEFORMITY
P112 SPINAL TUBERCULOSIS WITH NEUROLOGIC INJURY– A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
P113 Anorectal Manometry Characterized by Rectal Inflation Sense in Patients with Complete Spinal Cord Injury
P114 Spinal Cord Injuries in Ankylosing Spondylitis
P115 Cationic liposome-mediated BDNF gene transfer into the injured adult rat spinal cord
P116 THE IMPACT OF NUTRITION ON ELDERLY REHABILITATION AND ON PRESSURE SORES PREVENTION: A CASE REPORT
P117 Surgical treatment of syringomyelia and recovery of the spinal cord
P118 Aberrant bowel and bladder dysfunction following gunshot wound to the spine: A case report and literature review
P119 PROGRAM OF PROPRIOCEPTIVE TRAINING OF SPINAL CORD INJURY PATIENTS