Autonomic Dysreflexia (AD) is a potentially life-threatening condition that occurs in individuals with a spinal cord injury. Patients usually present with elevated blood pressure and bradycardia.

Even more impressive, these improvements persisted between sessions, suggesting that regular practice creates lasting changes in how the autonomic nervous system regulates blood pressure.

In addition, sphygmomanometers can underestimate blood pressure when it is perturbed by pressor reflexes, such as those engaged by upright posture, or if it is increased by pressor agents.

Neurally mediated hypotension is low blood pressure due to a reflex that widens the blood vessels and slows the heart rate. Certain situations like coughing, emotional stress, or pain can trigger ...

Several mechanisms have been invoked to explain the higher night-time blood pressure and associated worse outcome in reverse dippers: nocturnal autonomic dysfunction; disturbed baroreflex ...

Patients with vs without central sensitization syndrome had significantly more severe autonomic and sensory symptoms.

autonomic reflexes often referred to as "fight or flight" responses. These protective responses cause changes in blood pressure and the release of stress hormones into the blood stream.

Autonomic Dysreflexia and Boosting Persons with cervical or high thoracic spinal injuries can suffer from an abnormal sympathetic reflex called Autonomic Dysreflexia ... The symptoms of dysreflexia ...