Pages tagged with "Spinal Cord"

• Nerve cells and Vitamin D – many studies
• Brain and Vitamin D - many studies
• Spinal cord injury - test Vitamin D bi-annually - 2022
• Spinal Cord Injured persons were 7.6 X more likely to get pneumonia if low vitamin D
• Spinal Cord Injury treated by Vitamin D progesterone combination, etc. – review of trials
• Deep vein blood clots 12X more frequent in SCI patients who did not get vitamin D supplements
• Vitamin D weekly supplementation (Spinal Cord Injury athletes) increased handgrip strength
• Spinal cord injuries 2.8 X more likely to get worse in 1 year if low vitamin D
• Spinal Cord Injury wheelchair athletes helped by 12 weeks of Vitamin D
• Spinal Cord injury outcome was better if got Vitamin D and progesterone within 4 hours – RCT 2016
• Spinal Surgery patients – almost all have low vitamin D
• Both Spinal cord injury and stroke with one side disabled have similar low levels of vitamin D
• Spinal cord injury in rats was reduced if vitamin D is given soon after the injury
• Spinal Cord
• Spinal cord problems more likely if TBI if little Omega-3 in diet
• Vitamin D repaired nerve in rat (50,000 IU daily dose equivalent for human)
• Spinal cord injuries may need more vitamin D than others
• Spinal Cord Injury patients normalized by 2,000 IU of vitamin D for 3 months
• People with spinal cord injury also very vitamin D deficient – 2010
• 93% of Spinal cord injury patients were low on vitamin D