Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center

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

Assistant Professor

Department of Neurological Surgery

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 Research Description

Scientific interests of my Lab are in the development and implementation of neurophysiological methods that measure motor and autonomic 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.  The focus of this work is the study of the functional impairment of respiratory and cardiovascular systems after spinal cord injury and the effects of new rehabilitative strategies including locomotor training, respiratory muscle training and epidural stimulation of spinal cord.

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Alexander V. Ovechkin, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

University of Louisville

Department of Neurological Surgery

Phone: 502.581.8675

Fax: 502.582.7605

alexander.ovechkin@jhsmh.org

avovec02@louisville.edu