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]
The video below gives a short summary of Spinal Cord injuries :
Clinically Relevant Anatomy[edit | edit source]
Epidemiology / Etiology[edit | edit source]
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
Management[edit | edit source]
Conservative Management[edit | edit source]
Surgical Management[edit | edit source]
Types of Spinal Cord injuries[edit | edit source]
Paraplegia
Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord injuries[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 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.).
