SCI Publications

This study set out to determine the validity of two competing hypotheses regarding employment adjustment and spinal cord injury (SCI) as follows: 1) are better adjusted people more likely to obtain employment or 2) does the experience of becoming employed enhance post-SCI adjustment. Subjects were 301 persons with SCI ...

Study examines the reasons unemployed persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) give for their jobless status and whether demographics is a determining factor in these beliefs. Questionnaire results were returned from 231 participants. Physical inability to perform job tasks was reason cited by 60% of participants for not working ...

Chapter from a symposium on children with spinal cord injuries (SCI), focusing on use with children of the halo, an external skeletal fixation device intended for immobilization of the cervical spine. Discusses the implications of differences in physiology and biomechanics between children and adults; techniques of application; and results, ...

Chapter from a symposium on children with spinal cord injuries (SCI), focusing on diagnostic imaging of the cervical spine. Discusses indications for radiographs and computerized tomography (CT), then describes normal and abnormal radiographic anatomy for children with regard to atlanto-occipital and atlanto-dens interval (ADI), pseudosubluxation and pseudostability, cervical spine ...

Study investigating the unmet independent living needs of persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). Subjects were 127 persons who completed inpatient rehabilitation at one of two Model SCI Care Systems. All subjects were between the ages of 17 and 65 at the time of their injuries, lacked any evidence ...

Article presents case study of an individual with ventilator-dependent high cervical tetraplegia who was maintained on a ventilator for five years after sustaining a C3-C4 vertebral fracture with a complete high cervical tetraplegia. Diaphragmatic fluoroscopic evaluation at the initial injury revealed a non functioning diaphragm, and the patient was ...

Five year review presents rehabilitation functional outcome of individuals with neoplastic spinal cord compressions. Chart review and survey of patients or families provided data. Spinal cord compression is characterized by pain, weakness, autonomic dysfunction and sensory loss with possible complications of paralysis of muscles related to the level of ...

Article reports on the use and effectiveness of intrathecal baclofen (Lioresal --registered trademark) for the treatment of spinal spasticity. First-line treatment for spasticity usually includes therapeutic stretching, positioning, and physical modalities (heat,cold). Oral spasticity medications represent the next line of treatment and include baclofen, diazepam, dantrolene sodium, and clonidine. For ...

Chapter from a book on pulmonary rehabilitation, focusing on habilitation of children with chronic pulmonary failure. Topics include: causes of pulmonary failure in children; making the decision for home ventilation; goals of home mechanical ventilation; long-term ventilation in children; facilitating oral communication in children using trach positive-pressure ventilation; habilitation ...

Chapter from a symposium on children with spinal cord injuries (SCI), focusing on high tetraplegia (injury at a neurological level of C4 and above). Discusses issues related to ventilation, communication, assistive technology (AT) and equipment, therapy, seating and positioning, and transportation. ...

This paper describes the use of functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS) to provide upper limb function to individuals with tetraplegia, focusing on trials by three clinical research groups: (1) a hybrid noninvasive push-button surface electrode system built into a cosmetic forearm splint (Israel); (2) a respiration-controlled 30-channel percutaneous system (Japan), ...