Avtor/Urednik		Rozman, Janez; Zorko, Bojan; Seliškar, Alenka
Naslov		Regeneration of the radial nerve in the dog influenced by electrical stimulation
Tip		članek
Vir		In: Proceedings of the 6th Vienna international workshop on functional electrostimulation: basics, technology, application; 1998 Sep 22-24; Vienna. Vienna: University of Vienna, Department of biomedical engineering and physics,
Leto izdaje		1998
Obseg		str. 225-8
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		This study examines the effect of applied biphasic electric fields on nerve regeneration following injury to the left radial nerve of the dog using a method of electromyography. Left and right radial nerves in all animals were crushed with a serrated hemostat. One of the two bipolar stimulating electrodes was positioned just proximal and one just distal according to the injury. Right radial nerves in all animals were treated as controls and they were left to regenerate without electrical stimulation. Electrically treated radial received current across the lesion for two months. The stimulator was positioned and fixated under the skin. EMG activities recorded intramuscularly from left and right m. extensor digitalis communis muscles, elicited by electrical stimulation of crushed left and right radial nerves proximally and distally according to the lession at the beginning and at the end of the fwo months stimulation perod were compared. A signifcant difference between EMG activities of left stimulated and right unstimulated m. extensor digitalis communis muscles after two months stimulating period recorded proximally and distally according to the regenerated lession suggests that the electrical treatment enhanced the progress of nerve regeneration.
Deskriptorji		RADIAL NERVE NERVE REGENERATION ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY DOGS ELECTROMYOGRAPHY