The Miami Project video shows how to save your Upper Extremity following SCI

Persons with a spinal cord injury (SCI) are at a high risk for developing neurogenic obesity due to muscle paralysis and obligatory sarcopenia, sympathetic blunting, anabolic deficiency, and blunted satiety. Persons with SCI are also at high risk for shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand injuries, including neuromusculoskeletal pathologies and nociceptive pain, as human upper extremities are poorly designed to facilitate chronic weight-bearing activities, including manual wheelchair propulsion, transfers, self-care, and day-to-day activities.

In this 57-minute video presentation, Dr. David Gater, Professor and Chair, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at The Miami Project, will discuss the structure of one’s upper extremity and how the various activities that someone with SCI ends up doing affects the health of those extremities and what can be done, through exercise, injections or surgery to help alleviate these issues. You can view the video HERE.