Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a serious medical condition that causes functional, psychological
and socioeconomic disorder. Therefore, patients with SCI experience significant …

Abstract Purpose of Review To review the acute and chronic systemic complications of
spinal cord injury and discuss treatment recommendations. Recent Findings The …

Survival of an adult male (M9) with juvenile-onset quadriplegia in Neolithic Vietnam
indicates provision of continuous care from his community, and adds to the growing …

Abstract People with disabilities constitute 22.2% of the population in the United States, and
virtually all physicians have people with disabilities in their clinical practice across a wide …

Pain Management in Trauma Patients : American Journal of Physical Medicine &
Rehabilitation Pain Management in Trauma Patients : American Journal of Physical …

Neuropathic pain is a clinical entity that presents unique diagnostic and therapeutic
challenges. This chapter addresses the classification, epidemiology, pathophysiology …

Background: Injury to the spinal cord produces immediate, adaptive inflammatory responses
that can exacerbate the initial injury and lead to secondary damage. Thus far, researchers …

Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to profound haemodynamic changes. Constant outflows from
the central autonomic pattern generators modulate the activity of the spinal sympathetic …

Objective: To compare the prevalence of pressure ulcer (PU) and barriers to treatment in the
event of PU development as a function of race-ethnicity in persons with spinal cord injury …

The following review is a brief discussion about spinal cord injury and the possibility of using
estrogen as a neuroprotective agent. There are several pathways by which secondary cell …