Effect of paraplegia and ambient temperature on skin blood flow and CIVD
cord injury, paraplegia
PARAPLEGIA
The most pertinent issues with regards to the observed indirect evidence (i.e., skin temperature) of the skin blood flow responses in the fingers and toes of participants with paraplegia are: can the responses be defined as CIVDs in the same manner as in the able-bodied population, or are these responses of a different nature and origin, specific to individuals with spinal cord injury at a level that affects the innervation of the toes and not the fingers?Since SkBF fluctuations were observed in some individuals in our paraplegic group and not in others, it is important to consider the potential impact of the level of injury, since the control of SkBF of the lower extremity is mediated from T10 to L2 (Prévinaire et al. 