Overview of Spinal Cord Injuries
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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[1]
Causes of a Spinal Cord Injuries
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Causes of SCI can either be traumatic or non traumatic
Traumatic causes of Spinal Cord Injuries [2][edit | edit source]
The diagram below shows the traumatic causes of of SCI
Non-traumatic causes of Spinal cord injuries[3][edit | edit source]
The table below shows a summary of non- traumatic causes of SCI injuries
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]
Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord injuries[edit | edit source]
Interdisciplinary management of individuals with SCI
Wheelchair mobility for individuals with SCI
Bed mobility and transfers in individuals with SCI
Strength training in individuals with SCI
Contracture management in individuals with SCI
Motor skills in individuals with SCI
Cardiovascular fitness in individuals with SCI
Respiratory management in individuals with SCI
Pain management in individuals with SCI
Bladder and bowel management in individuals with SCI
References[edit | edit source]
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- ↑ Kirshblum SC, Burns SP, Biering-Sorensen F, Donovan W, Graves DE, Jha A et al. International standards for neurological classification of spinal cord injury (revised 2011). J Spinal Cord Med 2011; 34: 535-546
- ↑ Ackery A, Tator C, Krassioukov A. A global perspective on spinal cord injury epidemiology. J Neurotrauma 2004; 21: 1355-1370
- ↑ Biering-Sørensen F, Charlifue S, DeVivo M, Noonan V, Post M, Stripling T, Wing P. International Spinal Cord Injury Data Sets. Spinal Cord. 2006 Sep;44(9):530-4.).
