Valsalva maneuver pressure recovery time is prolonged following spinal cord injury with correlations to autonomically-influenced secondary complications.
Ryan SolinskyKathryn BurnsJ Andrew TaylorWolfgang SingerPublished in: Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society (2024)
SCI is associated with impaired rapid sympathetic activation, demonstrated here by prolonged pressure recovery time. Prolonged pressure recovery time after SCI predicts higher risk for autonomically mediated secondary complications, serving as a viable index for more "autonomically complete" injury.