A recent study by Dudley-Javorski and Shields suggests the importance of the orientation of muscular contraction on bone retention, because electrical stimulation
of the soleus muscle was associated with significantly higher BMD in the posterior tibia compared with the unstimulated anterior tibia, which did not differ significantly in BMD of chronic SCI .These results provide further support for Dudley-Javorski and Shields’ finding that mechanical loading was an important intervention for bone loss attenuation