Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center

Alexander Ovechkin, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Neurological Surgery

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 Research Description

Our interest is in the development and implementation of neurophysiological methods that measure motor output from the central nervous system for use in clinical research to examine recovery from spinal cord injury. Our further interest is to prepare these techniques for use in assessing the effects of new intervention strategies as they emerge from basic science testing.  One focus of this work is the study of the functional impairment of respiration after spinal cord injury and the effects of new treatment strategies including respiratory muscle training and functional electrical stimulation.

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Alexander V. Ovechkin, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

University of Louisville

Department of Neurological Surgery

Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Frazier Rehab Institute Neuroscience Collaborative Center

Phone: 502.581.8686

Fax: 502.582.7605

alexander.ovechkin@jhhs.org

avovec02@gwise.louisville.edu