TABLE 1.

Baseline demographics and spinal cord injury characteristics for 33 participants.

Ethnicity	Caucasian: n = 18
	African American: n = 15
Sex	Male: n = 27 Female: n = 6
Age (year)	40 ± 13.00
Weight (kg)	70 ± 15.18
Height (cm)	175 ± 8.99
BMI (kg/m2)	23 ± 5.25
Level of injury (range)	C5–L1
Time since injury (yr)	11 ± 10.59
AIS (score)	A: n = 19
	B: n = 9
	C: n = 5
SCI classification	Paraplegia: n = 22
	Tetraplegia: n = 11

BMI, body mass index; AIS, American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale; AIS-A, complete motor and sensory loss below the level of injury; AIS-B, complete motor loss and incomplete sensory loss below the level of injury; AIS-C, incomplete motor and sensory loss with less than half of the muscles tested below the LOI graded ≥ 3. Mean ± SD unless otherwise noted.