- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Biofield Effects and Biophysics
- Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies
Centro di Terapia Metacognitiva Interpersonale
2022-2023
Neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury (SCI) is notoriously hard to treat. Mechanisms of neuropathic are unclear, which makes finding effective treatments challenging. Prior studies have shown that adults with SCI body awareness deficits. Recent imaging studies, including ours, point the parietal operculum and insula as key areas for both perception awareness. Cognitive multisensory rehabilitation (CMR) a physical therapy approach helps improve reduction sensorimotor recovery. Based on...
Background About 69% of the 299,000 Americans living with spinal cord injury (SCI) experience long-term debilitating neuropathic pain. New treatments are needed because current do not provide enough pain relief. We have found that insular-opercular brain network alterations may contribute to and restoring this could reduce Here, we outline a study protocol using physical therapy approach, cognitive multisensory rehabilitation (CMR), which has been shown restore OP1/OP4 connections in adults...