Overview of Spinal Cord Injuries
Welcome to Spinal Cord Injury Content Creation Project. This page is being developed by participants of a project to populate the Spinal Cord Injury section of Physiopedia.
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- What is a SCI
- Causes of SCI
- Initial medical management (conservative and surgical)
- Different types of SCI (tetraplegia and paraplegia)
- Long term management of individuals with SCI (link to all other appropriate pages from this project)
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What is a Spinal Cord Injury [edit | edit source]
Spinal Cord injury (SCI) is an insult to the spinal cord resulting in change,either temporary or permanant in its normal motor,sensory or autonomic function
Causes of a Spinal Cord injury[edit | edit source]
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Initial medical management
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Conservative management[edit | edit source]
Surgical management[edit | edit source]
Types of Spinal Cord injuries[edit | edit source]
Long term management of Spinal Cord injuries[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
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