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The prevention and management of spinal cord injuries around the world
A web focus from Spinal Cord
This focus looks at the prevention and management of spinal cord injuries around the world.
Follow the debates in emerging economies, public education regarding prevention, training of health professionals and the development of physical resources and management systems.
We hope you enjoy our focus inspired by the themes of the 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Spinal Cord Society in October 2013.
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A global map for traumatic spinal cord injury epidemiology: towards a living data repository for injury prevention FREE
R A Cripps, B B Lee, P Wing, E Weerts, J Mackay and D Brown
Spinal Cord 49: 493-501; advance online publication, November 23, 2010; doi:10.1038/sc.2010.146
Characterization of neurological recovery following traumatic sensorimotor complete thoracic spinal cord injury FREE
J Zariffa, J L K Kramer, J W Fawcett, D P Lammertse, A R Blight, J Guest, L Jones, S Burns, M Schubert, M Bolliger, A Curt and J D Steeves
Spinal Cord 49: 463-471; advance online publication, October 12, 2010; doi:10.1038/sc.2010.140
The development of evidence-informed physical activity guidelines for adults with spinal cord injury FREE
K A Martin Ginis, A L Hicks, A E Latimer, D E R Warburton, C Bourne, D S Ditor, D L Goodwin, K C Hayes, N McCartney, A McIlraith, P Pomerleau, K Smith, J A Stone and D L Wolfe
Spinal Cord 49: 1088-1096; advance online publication, June 7, 2011; doi:10.1038/sc.2011.63
Gabapentin for spasticity and autonomic dysreflexia after severe spinal cord injury FREE
A G Rabchevsky, S P Patel, H Duale, T S Lyttle, C R O'Dell and P H Kitzman
Spinal Cord 49: 99-105; advance online publication, June 1, 2010; doi:10.1038/sc.2010.67
The acute respiratory management of cervical spinal cord injury in the first 6 weeks after injury: a systematic review FREE
S Berney, P Bragge, C Granger, H Opdam and L Denehy
Spinal Cord 49: 17-29; advance online publication, April 20, 2010; doi:10.1038/sc.2010.39
A classification and regression tree to assist clinical decision making in airway management for patients with cervical spinal cord injury FREE
S C Berney, I R Gordon, H I Opdam and L Denehy
Spinal Cord 49: 244-250; advance online publication, August 10, 2010; doi:10.1038/sc.2010.97
Priapism in acute spinal cord injury FREE
N V Todd
Spinal Cord 49: 1033-1035; advance online publication, June 7, 2011; doi:10.1038/sc.2011.57
United States (US) multi-center study to assess the validity and reliability of the Spinal Cord Independence Measure (SCIM III) FREE
K D Anderson, M E Acuff, B G Arp, D Backus, S Chun, K Fisher, J E Fjerstad, D E Graves, K Greenwald, S L Groah, S J Harkema, J A Horton III, M-N Huang, M Jennings, K S Kelley, S M Kessler, S Kirshblum, S Koltenuk, M Linke, I Ljungberg, J Nagy, L Nicolini, M J Roach, S Salles, W M Scelza, M S Read, R K Reeves, M D Scott, K E Tansey, J L Theis, C Z Tolfo, M Whitney, C D Williams, C M Winter and J M Zanca
Spinal Cord 49: 880-885; advance online publication, March 29, 2011; doi:10.1038/sc.2011.20
Neoplastic myelopathies and traumatic spinal cord lesions: an Italian comparison of functional and neurological outcomes FREE
G Scivoletto, L M Lapenna, V Di Donna, L Laurenza, S Sterzi, C Foti and M Molinari
Spinal Cord 49: 799-805; advance online publication, February 15, 2011; doi:10.1038/sc.2011.6
The Sir Ludwig Guttmann Lecture 2012: the contribution of Stoke Mandeville Hospital to spinal cord injuries FREE
H L Frankel
Spinal Cord 50: 790-796; advance online publication, October 9, 2012; doi:10.1038/sc.2012.109
Comparing and contrasting knowledge of pressure ulcer assessment, prevention and management in people with spinal cord injury among nursing staff working in two metropolitan spinal units and rehabilitation medicine training specialists in a three-way comparison FREE
N Gupta, B Loong and G Leong
Spinal Cord 50: 159-164; advance online publication, September 6, 2011; doi:10.1038/sc.2011.88
The effect of polytrauma as a possible confounder in the outcome of monotraumatic vs polytraumatic paraplegic patients: a clinical cohort study FREE
C Putz, C Schuld, S Gantz, T Grieser, M Akbar, B Moradi, B Wiedenhöfer, C H Fürstenberg, H J Gerner and R Rupp
Spinal Cord 49: 721-727; advance online publication, January 18, 2011; doi:10.1038/sc.2010.181
ISCoS–WHO collaboration. International Perspectives of Spinal Cord Injury (IPSCI) report FREE
F Biering-Sørensen, J E Bickenbach, W S El Masry, A Officer and P M von Groote
Spinal Cord 49: 679-683; advance online publication, March 22, 2011; doi:10.1038/sc.2011.12
Global maps of non-traumatic spinal cord injury epidemiology: towards a living data repository FREE
P W New, R A Cripps and B Bonne Lee
Spinal Cord advance online publication, January 15, 2013; doi:10.1038/sc.2012.165
Design and rationale of a Prospective, Observational European Multicenter study on the efficacy of acute surgical decompression after traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: the SCI-POEM study FREE
J J van Middendorp, G Barbagallo, M Schuetz and A J F Hosman
Spinal Cord 50: 686-694; advance online publication, April 17, 2012; doi:10.1038/sc.2012.34
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