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Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) @aaphysiatrists.bsky.social · 20d

🚀 Push the frontiers of #RehabMedicine research with the AAP RMSTP!

Mentorship. Training. A national network of physician-scientists. Build your research career & shape the future of patient care.

🗓 Apply by Oct 1: zurl.co/58q57

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Ryan Solinsky, MD @ryansolinskymd.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thinking of writing your first big grant? Can’t recommend this program enough and learned many nuanced approaches I still use today.

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Ryan Solinsky, MD @ryansolinskymd.bsky.social · Jun 1

AI integration in spinal cord injury medicine precourse at the ASIA2025 meeting. Led by @peabody124.bsky.social and Dr. Sarah Brueningk. Learning lessons from other successful examples in Cancer, Alzheimer’s, Cardiology.

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Nature @nature.com · May 26

Nature research paper: Closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation aids recovery from spinal cord injury

https://go.nature.com/4mrysC9

Closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation aids recovery from spinal cord injury - Nature

Following spinal cord injury, gamified physical therapy that incorporates closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation can aid restoration of arm and hand function.

go.nature.com

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R. James Cotton @peabody124.bsky.social · May 14

Yeah that was a great session from the American Spinal Cord Injury Association! If you like that session, check out the conference! :) asia-spinalinjury.org

American Spinal Injury Association

The premier North American organization in the field of Spinal Cord Injury Care, Education, and Research

asia-spinalinjury.org

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Ryan Solinsky, MD @ryansolinskymd.bsky.social · May 2

Proud early PI moment. Lab did an amazing job presenting our new work on autonomic neuromodulation for people w/ spinal cord injury at the Minnesota Neuromodulation Symposium

Important work coming out on:
-cardiac stability w/ spinal stim
-biomarkers of spasticity
-AD during motor threshold tests

Minnesota Neuromodulation Symposium poster session

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American Physiological Society @apsphysiology.bsky.social · Apr 16

Learn how controlled breathing reduces anxiety and inflammation and how intermittent low oxygen drives plasticity and improves health at this #APS2025 game-changer session: ow.ly/kEZO50VlLfV #WeArePhysiology 🧪 @ameuret.bsky.social

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Ryan Solinsky, MD @ryansolinskymd.bsky.social · Apr 14

Ground breaking wireless bladder pressure monitor for real world recordings in Journal of Urology. Already yielding results, showing higher pressures during ambulation. This will change how we manage and think about bladder dysfunction after SCI.

Sponsored by the now defunded DoD SCIRP grants.

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Ryan Solinsky, MD @ryansolinskymd.bsky.social · Apr 6

Worth a listen, new podcast from @u2fp.bsky.social with Dr. Andy Taylor on the recently disbanded $40M DoD spinal cord injury research program.

This was a unique program which ensured people impacted by SCI were helping make funding decisions based on community priorities.

u2fp.org/get-educated...

Collateral Damage (Episode 119)

We are interrupting our regularly scheduled programming with this update on a major setback for SCI research. On March 15th, Congress eliminated an effective Spinal Cord Injury Research program...

u2fp.org

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Ryan Solinsky, MD @ryansolinskymd.bsky.social · Mar 29

Significant functional improvements in walking speed/endurance for people with spinal cord injury with combined 4-aminopyridine and paired associative stimulation.

A great study by Dr. Monica Perez and an All Star group.

#SCIrehab 🧪 #phySKYatry

academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

Combinatorial approaches increasing neuronal activity accelerate recovery after spinal cord injury

Chen et al. report that patients with spinal cord injury who received treatment with a combination of Hebbian stimulation to strengthen corticospinal synap

academic.oup.com

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Ryan Solinsky, MD @ryansolinskymd.bsky.social · Mar 24

This is really interesting & I hope it holds up to rigorous peer review.

With an intervention at 2-4 weeks after acute SCI, considering natural recovery is key. Digital twins are ideal to know typical recovery.

Dr. Bruningk’s site will be my first stop when these results hit.
hicsci.ethz.ch/tool

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Ashley Dalrymple @dr-shlee.bsky.social · Mar 17

Are you …Ready for It? In this Era of neurotechnology, we wrote this TIMEly review of the technological and biological failure modes of implanted neural interfaces and how to overcome these challenges, Swiftly published in Bioelectronic Medicine. PS I’m so proud of these figures. rdcu.be/eduek

Implanted neural interfaces throughout the body

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Ryan Solinsky, MD @ryansolinskymd.bsky.social · Mar 18

What a great panel!

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R. James Cotton @peabody124.bsky.social · Mar 1

@ben-petrie.bsky.social gave a great #physiatry2025 presentation on EMG biofeedback for people with spinal cord injury and won first prize! Thanks to the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation for support for this project, and to all of our participants.

Excited to share this soon in an upcoming manuscript!

Photo of Ben Petrie standing in front of his slide title "Gamified Electromyographic Biofeedback for People with Tetraplegia

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Ryan Solinsky, MD @ryansolinskymd.bsky.social · Feb 17

A fun data science competition with unique dataset access for those interested in spinal cord injury research (or who just want to make the world better).

Reveal of winning team results will be a highlight of the American Spinal Injury Association precourse this June!

🧪 #SCIrehab #PhySKYatry

R. James Cotton @peabody124.bsky.social · Feb 17

Are you interested in data science and spinal cord injury? Looking for an opportunity to explore it?

Then I highly recommend checking out the data science challenge organized through ASIA.

www.kaggle.com/competitions...

www.kaggle.com/competitions...

Spinal Cord Injury Challenge - Functional Track

2025 American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) Challenge: Prediction of functional recovery after traumatic spinal cord injury

www.kaggle.com

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · Jan 21

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Dec 8

Every year around now, I start to see grad students on social media bemoan that they’re going home for the holidays to a family that doesn’t understand their research, or what they do in general, and it breaks my heart. 🧵 🧪 #SciComm

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Spinal Injuries Association @spinalinjuries.bsky.social · Nov 21

🔴Normally, pinkness or redness are an early indication of a pressure ulcer forming but with dark skin tones this often isn't the case. Find out more on our website⬇️
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#STOPTHEPRESSURE #CheckEveryTone
In collaboration with @hudgellsolicitors.bsky.social

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Ryan Solinsky, MD @ryansolinskymd.bsky.social · Dec 7

Editorial on a critical access issue for individuals with spinal cord injuries.

Despite 98% of US physicians using nitro paste as 1st line for autonomic dysreflexia management - this basic med isn’t available in Canada or Latin America.

#medSKY #PhySKYatry

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Ryan Solinsky, MD @ryansolinskymd.bsky.social · Dec 7

Editorial on a critical access issue for individuals with spinal cord injuries.

Despite 98% of US physicians using nitro paste as 1st line for autonomic dysreflexia management - this basic med isn’t available in Canada or Latin America.

#medSKY #PhySKYatry

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Ryan Solinsky, MD @ryansolinskymd.bsky.social · Nov 30

Full article link 🧪

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dysreflexic dilemma: do we need a revised definition for autonomic dysreflexia? - Clinical Autonomic Research

Clinical Autonomic Research -

link.springer.com

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Ryan Solinsky, MD @ryansolinskymd.bsky.social · Nov 30

Think you know Autonomic Dysreflexia after spinal cord injury?

After decades of everyone doing their own thing, we’ve had 20 years consensus definition.

But it’s far from perfect. Herein we take a deep dive into where the definition fails and how it might be improved.
#Medsky #SCIrehab #PhySKYatry

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Ryan Solinsky, MD @ryansolinskymd.bsky.social · Nov 19

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Lewis A Wheaton @lwheaton.bsky.social · Nov 18

This is so important… many people make serious sacrifices to attend conferences, an essential part of the research enterprise. These are critical insights.

Pallett Lab UCL @pallettlab.bsky.social · Nov 18

A while back we wrote an article calling for accelerated change in policy for those w/ caring responsibilities in #STEMM

Sharing insights into the challenges, highlighting personal experiences & proposing a strategy to improve culture

#AcademicSky

Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Researcher parents are paying a high price for conference travel — here’s how to fix it

Three scientist mothers call for a change in how conference childcare costs are reimbursed, drawing on their personal experiences.

www.nature.com

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Nov 17

Terrific piece summarizing a recent report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns

www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...

Report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns

Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion, according to an

www.fiercebiotech.com

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