title: Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields: A possible non-invasive therapeutic tool for spinal cord injury rehabilitation.
abstract: Traumatic insults to the spinal cord induce both immediate mechanical damage and subsequent tissue degeneration. The latter involves a range of events namely cellular disturbance, homeostatic imbalance, ionic and neurotransmitters derangement that ultimately result in loss of sensorimotor functions. The targets for improving function after spinal cord injury (SCI) are mainly directed toward limiting these secondary injury events. Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic field (ELF-EMF) is a possible non-invasive therapeutic intervention for SCI rehabilitation which has the potential to constrain the secondary injury-induced events. In the present review, we discuss the effects of ELF-EMF on experimental and clinical SCI as well as on biological system.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Physiology , All India Institute of Medical Sciences , New Delhi , India.|b W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , Piscataway , NJ , USA.
authors.forename: Suneel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: a Department of Physiology , All India Institute of Medical Sciences , New Delhi , India.
authors.forename: Soumil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dey
authors.affiliation: a Department of Physiology , All India Institute of Medical Sciences , New Delhi , India.
authors.forename: Suman
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jain
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D055909:Magnetic Field Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000628:therapy*
keywords: Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic field; recovery; regeneration; secondary injury; spinal cord injury