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Barrow Neurological Institute at Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center is the world's largest dedicated neurosurgical center and a leader in neurosurgical training, research, and patient care. [3]
Dickman CA, Fehlings M, Gokaslan ZL: Spinal Cord and Spinal Column Tumor. Thieme Medical Publishers [37] [38] Dickman CA, Spetzler RF, Sonntag VKH: Surgery of the Craniovertebral Junction. Thieme Medical Publishers, 1998 [8] [39] Dickman CA, Rosenthal D, Perin N: Thoracoscopic Spine Surgery. Thieme Medical Publishers, 1999. [40] [41]
He was one of the senior investigators in a multi-center study that tested a new medication for patients with spinal cord injury. Dr. Theodore has received an NIH RO-1 grant [7] to study novel approaches to spinal surgery, as well as the development of customized devices for patients with spinal cord injury. [2]
Biological Approaches to Spinal Disc Repair and Regeneration for Clinicians New York, New York : Thieme Publishers, 2017 ISBN 9781626232501; Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery: Techniques, Evidence, and Controversies” Davos, Switzerland : AOSpine, 2012 ISBN 9783131723819
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.
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]
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 ...