Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America
New Opportunities and Novel Paradigms to Support Neuromuscular Research
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Histology Core
Skeletal muscle histology has a long and distinguished presence at the UCSD. Under the direction of Dr Richard Lieber and housed in the UCSD Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, skeletal muscle studies have been produced in large number since 1981. From the early studies describing skeletal muscle from normal and diseased tissues,1 to more recent studies that show more subtle changes that occur in skeletal muscle after injury from exercise or disease (as reported in Refs.2, 3), the Histology Core
NSMRC opportunities for rehabilitation researchers
The target clinical professionals for the NSMRC are physical therapists, physiatrists, neurologists, and occupational therapists. In addition, bioengineers, rehabilitation engineers, neuroscientists, and exercise physiologists are targeted. All of these researchers are interested in the restoration or improvement of movement after loss of function. The loss of function might be caused by such factors as postoperative muscle atrophy, stroke, spinal cord injury, head injury, chronic type II
The NSMRC shares its expertise in muscle with the rehabilitation community
Evidence of the commitment to teaching in rehabilitation is the third edition of Dr Lieber’s15 textbook entitled Skeletal Muscle Structure, Function and Plasticity: Implications for Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine. This book is presented in a user-friendly manner, in which the goal is to transmit the information in a clear and consistent manner, not to impress the reader with breadth or depth of knowledge. The NSMRC believes this is a critical educational attitude at a time when so many
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This work was supported in part by NSMRC R24 HD650837.