Management and Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injuries

• Main Author: Ko, Hyun-Yoon (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Rehabilitation.; Neurology .; Neurology.

This comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the rehabilitation care of persons with spinal cord injuries and disorders draws on the ever-expanding scientific and clinical evidence base to provide clinicians with all the knowledge needed in order to make optimal management decisions during the acute, sub...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Development and functional anatomy of spine and spinal cord
• 2. Neurological classification and evaluation of spinal cord injury
• 3. Epidemiology of spinal cord injury
• 4. Spinal shock
• 5. Acute management of spinal cord injury
• 6. Incomplete spinal cord injuries: syndromes
• 7. Nontraumatic spinal cord injuries
• 8. Syringomyelia
• 9. Cauda equina injury
• 10. Autonomic dysfunction
• 11. Cardiovascular dysfunction
• 12. Respiratory dysfunction
• 13. Orthostatic hypotension
• 14. Autonomic dysreflexia
• 15. Electrolytes and metabolic dysfunction
• 16. Deep vein thrombosis
• 17. Dysfunction in thermal regulation
• 18. Neurogenic bladder dysfunction
• 19. Neurogenic bowel dysfunction
• 20 Sexual dysfunction
• 21. Pressure ulcer
• 22. Heterotopic ossification
• 23. Spasticity
• 24. Pain dysfunction
• 25. Spinal cord injury in children
• 26. Spinal cord injury in elderly
• 27. Neurological deterioration after spinal cord injury
• 28. Associated brain injury in spinal cord injury
• 29. Function evaluation and functional goals
• 30. Upper extremity in tetraplegic
• 31. Psychological responses.