GMI and Chronic Pain

MotorImpairment Blog

• Electrical stimulation of the abdominal muscles for the critically ill
  Intensive care beds, which cater for critically ill patients, are predicted to represent >30% of all future hospital beds. Around a third of critically ill patients require mechanical ventilation to help them breathe. While a lifesaving intervention, mechanical ventilation increases breathing and heart related complications, decreases quality of life, and costs at least an additional […]
• The speed of strength: how often should you train one arm to increase strength in both arms?
  Single limb resistance training improves strength not only in the trained limb, but also in similar muscles of the untrained limb. The increase in strength in the untrained limb, commonly known as ‘cross-education’, is due to a strengthening of connections within the brain and spinal cord (Farthing and Zehr, 2014). Single limb training can be […]