WHEN PEOPLE WITH SCI HELP DESIGN IT
The FES Center wanted to better understand how mild electrical stimulation of certain nerves can improve bladder and bowel function.
“Before investing a large amount of time and money in this direction, we asked individuals with SCI about how they manage their bladder and bowel, what their priorities for functional recovery were and whether they were even interested in an approach that used nerve stimulation,” says Dennis Bourbeau, a research investigator at the Cleveland FES Center.
“An
independent advisory board helped craft the questions and helped us interpret
the feedback that we received.”
The results were published in
the Spinal Cord journal, where clinicians can find them and
potentially use them to improve the quality of life of people with SCI they see
in their offices.
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