Mrs. Megan C Wright PT, DPT
Physical Therapist
12 Woodlee Rd Staunton VA, 24401About
Megan Wright is a physical therapist practicing in Staunton, VA. Megan Wright specializes in physical treatment to help a patient reduce pain, restore mobility, rehabilitate an injury, or increase movement and overall function. As a physical therapist, Megan Wright can treat multiple conditions with exercises, ultrasound, electrical stimulation, joint mobilization, heat, ice, massage, laser or light therapy and more. Megan Wright will create a treatment plan based on the patients specific injury or condition, and might target a specific body part or body system based on the individual.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ciliary neurotrophic factor is not required for terminal sprouting and compensatory reinnervation of neuromuscular synapses: re-evaluation of CNTF null mice.
- Distinct patterns of motor nerve terminal sprouting induced by ciliary neurotrophic factor vs. botulinum toxin.
- Distinct muscarinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes contribute to stability and growth, but not compensatory plasticity, of neuromuscular synapses.
- Phrenic motor neuron degeneration compromises phrenic axonal circuitry and diaphragm activity in a unilateral cervical contusion model of spinal cord injury.
- Degeneration of phrenic motor neurons induces long-term diaphragm deficits following mid-cervical spinal contusion in mice.
- Early phrenic motor neuron loss and transient respiratory abnormalities after unilateral cervical spinal cord contusion.
- Overexpression of the astrocyte glutamate transporter GLT1 exacerbates phrenic motor neuron degeneration, diaphragm compromise, and forelimb motor dysfunction following cervical contusion spinal cord injury.
- Transplantation of glial progenitors that overexpress glutamate transporter GLT1 preserves diaphragm function following cervical SCI.
- GLT1 overexpression in SOD1(G93A) mouse cervical spinal cord does not preserve diaphragm function or extend disease.
- Functional and morphological assessment of diaphragm innervation by phrenic motor neurons.
- Human iPS cell-derived astrocyte transplants preserve respiratory function after spinal cord injury.
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