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This resource addresses all aspects of combat amputee care ranging from surgical techniques to long-term care, polytrauma and comorbidities such as traumatic brain injury and burns, pain management, psychological issues, physical and occupational therapy, VA benefits, prosthetics and adaptive technologies, sports and recreational opportunities, and return to duty and vocational rehabilitation.
This comprehensive and practical reference is the perfect resource for the medical specialist treating persons with spinal cord injuries. The book provides detail about all aspects of spinal cord injury and disease. The initial seven chapters present the history, anatomy, imaging, epidemiology, and general acute management of spinal cord injury. The next eleven chapters deal with medical aspects of spinal cord damage, such as pulmonary management and the neurogenic bladder. Chapters on rehabilitation are followed by nine chapters dealing with diseases that cause non-traumatic spinal cord injury. A comprehensive imaging chapter is included with 30 figures which provide the reader with an excellent resource to understand the complex issues of imaging the spine and spinal cord.
This resource addresses all aspects of combat amputee care ranging from surgical techniques to long-term care, polytrauma and comorbidities such as traumatic brain injury and burns, pain management, psychological issues, physical and occupational therapy, VA benefits, prosthetics and adaptive technologies, sports and recreational opportunities, and return to duty and vocational rehabilitation.
Of recommendations -- Spinal cord medicine consorium -- Guideline development process -- Neurogenic bowel management guideline methodology -- Strength of scientific evidence for the recommendations -- Strength of panel opinion -- Introduction -- Epidemiology of spinal cord injury and neurogenic bowel -- Anatomy and physiology -- Colon anatomy -- Colon physiology -- Pathophysiology of the neurogenic bowel -- Spinal shock -- Gastrocolic response -- Effects on colonic and rectal compliance and motility -- Alterations in the anal sphincter -- Functional results -- Recommendations -- Assessment of the neurogenic bowel -- Assessment of impairment and disability -- Assessment of function (disability) -- Management of the neurogenic bowel - Designing a bowel program -- Nutrition -- Managing the neurogenic bowel at home or in the community -- Managing complications of the neurogenic bowel -- Surgical and nonsurgical therapies -- Education strategies for the neurogenic bowel -- Recommendations for future research.