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Shepherd Center, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is a private, not-for-profit hospital specializing in medical treatment, research, and rehabilitation for people with complex conditions, including spinal cord injury, acquired brain injury, multi-trauma, traumatic amputations, stroke, multiple sclerosis, chronic pain, and other neuromuscular conditions.
Suffered spinal cord injury at age 16 in 1975. [16] Chance Sumner – Member of Denver Harlequins, Quadriplegic rugby team (Wheelchair Rugby), Member of 2008 Quad Rugby Paralympic American team. Suffered a spinal cord injury in 2002 when he was thrown off a mechanical bull. [citation needed] [17] Herb Tabak – Author and pilot [18] [19] [20]
This can include conditions such as spinal cord injury, brain injury, musculoskeletal injury, stroke, pain and spasticity from muscle, ligament, or nerve damage. PM&R physicians lead rehabilitation teams and are trained in medication management, electrodiagnosis, and targeted injections.
The Minneapolis VAHCS is one of four VA medical centers with specialty care capacity for polytrauma injuries. [1] It accepts both active duty military service members and veterans with traumatic brain injury, blindness and amputation for rehabilitation. In 2009, a $20 million Spinal Cord Injury/Disorder (SCI/D) Center was completed as an ...
Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty that focuses on the surgical treatment or rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nervous system, and cerebrovascular system. [1]
The rehabilitation process following a spinal cord injury typically begins in the acute care setting. Occupational therapy plays an important role in the management of SCI. [2] Recent studies emphasize the importance of early occupational therapy, started immediately after the client is stable.
Spinal cord injury research seeks new ways to cure or treat spinal cord injury in order to lessen the debilitating effects of the injury in the short or long term. There is no cure for SCI, and current treatments are mostly focused on spinal cord injury rehabilitation and management of the secondary effects of the condition. [ 1 ]
In Pakistan, spinal cord injury is more common in males (92.68%) as compared to females in the 20–30 years of age group with a median age of 40 years, although people from 12–70 years of age suffered from spinal cord injury [73] Rates of injury are at their lowest in children, at their highest in the late teens to early twenties, then get ...