BookHyun-Yoon Ko.
Summary: 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, subacute, and chronic phases. A wealth of information is presented on the diverse medical consequences and complications encountered in these patients and on the appropriate rehabilitative measures in each circumstance. The coverage encompasses all forms of spinal cord injury and all affected organ systems. Readers will also find chapters on the basics of functional anatomy, neurological classification and evaluation, injuries specifically in children and the elderly, and psychological issues. The book will be an invaluable aid to assessment and medical care for physicians and other professional personnel in multiple specialties, including physiatrists, neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, internists, critical care physicians, urologists, neurologists, psychologists, and social workers.
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.