Evaluation of Respiratory Muscle Activation Using Respiratory Motor Control Assessment (RMCA) in Individuals with Chronic Spinal Cord InjurySevda C. Aslan 1, Manpreet K. Chopra 1, William B. McKay 2, Rodney J. Folz 3, Alexander V. Ovechkin 1
1Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Louisville, 2Spinal Cord Injury Laboratory, Shepherd Center, 3Department of Medicine: Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Disorders, University of Louisville
The purpose of this publication is to present our original work on a multi-muscle surface electromyographic approach to quantitatively characterize respiratory muscle activation patterns in individuals with chronic spinal cord injury using vector-based analysis.
