Rehabilitation of patients suffering from closed spinal trauma with damage to the spinal cord
Molchanov, V.I.; Krutitskiĭ, A.G.; Shterliaev, V.N.
Vrachebnoe Delo 2: 85-88
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0049-6804 PMID: 2711679 Document Number: 342350
Results of complex rehabilitative treatment of 652 patients with above kind of pathology are examined. Outcomes of motor mobility depending on the level and severity of the injury are shown. In spine-spinal cord injury 77.3% of patients could walk using supplementing devices. The percent of I group invalidity depending on the level of spinal cord injury varies from 74.6-92.7%, II group invalidity--0.8-7.5%, III group invalidity--0.8-3.5%.