Scottish Centre for Innovation in Spinal Cord Injury

Research

Current projects:

• Abdominal Functional Electrical Stimulation to reduce respiratory complications in spinal cord in acute tetraplegia (led by Dr Henrik Gollee)
• Clinical assessment of upper extremity performance in individuals with spinal cord injury using the LIFT System to deliver non-invasive electrical spinal stimulation (led by Dr Bethel Osuagwu)
• Early and intensive motor training (versus usual care) to enhance neurological recovery and function in people with spinal cord injury (SCI) (led by Claire Lincoln)
• Early diagnosis and intervention of osteoporosis using nanovibrational stimulation (led by Professor Stuart Reid)
• Electroencephalograph predictors of central neuropathic pain in subacute spinal cord injury (led by Dr Alexsandra Vuckovic)
• Heparin mimetics: Novel non-anticoagulant compounds to promote CNS repair (led by Prof Sue Barnett)
• Mechanisms of Neuropathic Pain after Spinal Cord Injury (led by Dr Mariel Purcell)
• Motor Conditioning to Enhance the Effect of Physical Therapy (led by Dr Alexsandra Vuckovic)
• Neurofeedback to improve spasticity after incomplete spinal cord injury (led by Dr Alexsandra Vuckovic)
• Pre-Clinical validation of clinical grade human olfactory mucosal (OM)-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) (led by Prof Sue Barnett)