Spinal Coordinates
Autonomic dysreflexia is a life-threatening condition most commonly occurring in patients with injuries at or above this spinal level.
What is T6?
You can register up to 3 of these to unlock the Programmer, but all have to be recorded at the same time.
What is a fingerprint?
LOVE ISLAND TAKEOVER!
This Spanish island is the place Love Island usually takes place on.
What is Mallorca?
Adjusting this parameter should be the first change considered when searching for a sweet spot during an exercise.
What is amplitude?
If you have connection issues with the Stimulator and Programmer, unpair the two and perform this task before re-pairing.
What is factory reset?
The ASIA Impairment Scale is used to assess these impairments following spinal cord injury and categorizes severity from A to E.
What is motor and sensory function?
These are the only contraindications for ARC-EX.
What are active implantable devices or wearable defibrillators?
This is performed before stimulation and has three potential outcomes.
What is an impedance check?
These are the recommended starting parameters for first-time users (waveform, pulse width, frequency, amplitude, carrier frequency)
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
FES often causes rapid fatigue due to this pattern of direct muscle activation, while tSCS avoids this.
What is inverse recruitment?
This syndrome, often caused by hyperextension injuries, results in greater motor weakness in the upper limbs than in the lower limbs.
What is central cord syndrome?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
These 3 LED Status Indicators are placed on the top of the Stimulator
What are Battery, Bluetooth, and Impedance Status?
When finished with your session, you can "stop" stimulation and select from these options.
What are "Select another program" or "End Session"?
While doing exercises with ARC-EX, a therapist should make sure a patient is involved in this way.
What is actively engaged?
The Up-LIFT pivotal trial required participants to train with this frequency in the clinic, doing various exercises considered functional task practice.
What is 3 days per week for 8 weeks (repeated afterwards with stimulation)?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
In autonomic dysreflexia, unchecked sympathetic discharge causes widespread vasoconstriction below the level of injury, while this cranial nerve mediates parasympathetic responses above.
What is the vagus nerve (cranial nerve X)?
The ARC-EX System has been approved for hand sensation and strength in this individuals with these characteristics.
What is 18-75 years old with chronic, non-progressive neurological deficit from an incomplete SCI (C2-C8 inclusive)?
This is what I need to do to make sure one selected Active Channel uses multiple Return Electrodes as if it were one common Return Electrodes.
What is linking Return Electrodes?
A customer says 10 kHz carrier frequency is ineffective, but you're ready with this answer.
What is "The Up-LIFT trial with 60 participants with SCI demonstrated 90% improvement in strength or function and 87% improvement in quality of life, and all participants used the 10 kHz carrier frequency, plus it's more comfortable"?
This is the name of the ONWARD-sponsored pivotal trial to be started this year treating orthostatic hypotension in SCI.
What is Empower BP?
This is the order (from most common to less common) of the most common causes of SCI.
What is
This message appears on the Stimulator when you try starting stimulation with the Splitter Box cable unplugged?
What is "See Cables"?
What is Pause Stimulation, Stop Stimulation, Turn Off Stimulator, and Unplug Splitter Box?
Sometimes, chosen parameters don't allow stimulation to begin because of this overlap error.
What are simultaneous pulses?
This is what follows a monophasic cathodic (active) pulse.
What is a charge-balance pulse?