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 the knowledge needed in order to make optimal management decisions during the acute, subacute, and chronic phases. The second edition re-organized contents as more clinically practical use, consisting of 48 chapters. Also, new chapters such as kinesiology and kinematics of functional anatomy of the extremities are added as well. 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. Introduction
2. Development and functional anatomy of the spinal cord
3. Kinesiology and kinematics of extremities for functional retraining
4. Functional goals according to the level of injury
5. Biomechanics of the spinal cord
6. Fractures of the spine
7. Imaging of spinal cord injuries
8. Pharmacotherapy in spinal cord medicine
9. Physical and neurolgocial examination of spinal cord injuries
10. Epidemiology of spinal cord injuries
11. Standards for neurological classification of spinal cord injuries
12. Spinal shock and its clinical implications. 13. Acute phase management of spinal cord injuries
14. Nontraumatic spinal cord injuries
15. Incomplete syndromes
16. Cauda equina and conus medullaris injuries
17. Posttraumatic syringomyelia
18. Automonic nervous system in spinal cord injuries
19. Cardiovascular dysfunctions
20. Respiratory dysfunction and care
21. Autonomic dysreflexia
22. Orthostatic hypotension and supine hypertension
23. Venous thromboembolism: prevention and treatment
24. Electrolyte disorder
25. Metabolic syndrome
26. Voiding dysfunction and genitourinary complications
27. Bowel dysfunction and gastrointestinal complications
28. Sexuality changes
29. Pressure injuries
30. Thermoregulatory dysfunction
31. Spasticity
32. Heterotopic ossification
33. Pain types and taxonomy
34. Child spinal cord injuries/lesions
35. Elderly spinal cord injuries
36. Dual injury
37. Sleep disorders
38. Neurodeterioration
39. Psychological intervention
40. Upper extremity intervention
41. Walking dysfunction
42. Wheelchairs and wheelchair mobility
43. Follow-up care of spinal cord injuries.