557 top medical experts on Quadriplegia across 35 countries and 32 U.S. states, including 467 MDs (Physicians). This is based on an objective analysis of their Scientific Publications, Clinical Trials, Medicare, and NIH Grants.

  1. Quadriplegia: Severe or complete loss of motor function in all four limbs which may result from brain diseases; spinal cord diseases; peripheral nervous system diseases; neuromuscular diseases; or rarely muscular diseases. The locked-in syndrome is characterized by quadriplegia in combination with cranial muscle paralysis. Consciousness is spared and the only retained voluntary motor activity may be limited eye movements. This condition is usually caused by a lesion in the upper brain stem which injures the descending cortico-spinal and cortico-bulbar tracts.
  2. Clinical guidelines are the recommended starting point to understand initial steps and current protocols in any disease or procedure:
  3. Broader Categories (#Experts): Paralysis (1,175) and Narrower Categories: Locked-In Syndrome (139).
  4. Clinical Trials ClinicalTrials.gov : at least 119 including 6 Active, 47 Completed, 36 Recruiting
  5. Synonyms: Quadriparesis,  Spastic Quadriplegia,  Tetraplegia


  

        

                    


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