In patients with spinal cord injuries, a medical emergency known as autonomic dysreflexia can occur and have potentially life-threatening consequences. Autonomic dysreflexia, also known as autonomic ...

Individuals with spinal cord injury and other neurologic disorders have conditions that affect their urologic systems and their ability to store and empty urine. Urodynamic tests evaluate this ...

Scientists have shown that is possible to restore immune function in spinal injured mice. People with spinal cord injury often are immune compromised, which makes them more susceptible to infections.

Dangerous form of doping boosts blood pressure and performance. Sept. 4, 2012— -- Bryan Kirkland could always spot a booster. Sweaty arms, shaky legs and "chicken skin" were telltale signs of the ...

My 21-year-old son fell from a 40-foot extension ladder while at work and suffered an incomplete spinal cord injury, instantly paralyzing him and rendering him a quadriplegic. After enduring three ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University researcher in the College of Engineering and his collaborators in the Indiana University School of Medicine have received federal funding to develop their ...

Cancer is the third most common cause of death in people with spinal cord injury (SCI), with bladder cancer being the second most common cancer after lung cancer. It is not uncommon for bladder cancer ...

Autonomic dysreflexia is a condition in which the involuntary nervous system overreacts to external stimuli. It is known as autonomic hyperreflexia. It causes a dangerous spike in blood pressure, a ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the incidence of symptomatic urinary tract infections (UTI) and autonomic dysreflexia (A/D) associated with urodynamics in a large population of neurogenic ...