A Review of Different Stimulation Methods for Functional Reconstruction and Comparison of Respiratory Function after Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

Table 1

Characteristics of participants of included studies.

Num	Author	Country or region	Aetiology(SCI level)	Number of participants	Mean of age	Male (%)	Injury time
1	Anthony F. DiMarco [15]	USA	SCI(C3-C6)	9	41	89	13.11 years
2	Vernon W. Lin [51]	USA	C4-C7 T5	8	51.25	100	17.75 years
3	A Zupan [45],	Slovenia	C4-C7	13	26.9	84.62	7 months
4	Franco Laghi [33]	USA	C5-C7 T4-T6	10	47.3	Unknown	10.66 years
5	Pao-Tsai Cheng [46]	Taiwan	C4-C7	26	34.7	84.62	In 3 months