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SCI Rehabilitation: Concepts, Mobility, Functional Electrical Stimulation,Spasticity

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Injuries to the vertebral column resulting in damage to the spinal cord are uncommon with an annual incidence at about 20-40 per million population and a prevalence somewhere between 183 000 and 230 000 in the United States (Go et al. 1995). Although small in number, the cost in personal terms to the individual, his family and to society in health, social and other resources is immense. Through the pioneering work of many including Riddoch and Guttman in Britain and Munro and Bors in the United States (Collins and Chehrazi 1982), management of spinal cord injury (SCI) is becoming an acknowledged medical subspecialty in its own right and preliminary efforts are underway by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation to create special certification in SCI management.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Lane, Preston, PR2 4HT, UK

    Edmund Critchley DM, FRCP

  2. Vancouver General Hospital, 855 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1M9, Canada

    Andrew Eisen MD, FRCP(C)

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Weber, R.J., Davis, R.C. (1997). SCI Rehabilitation: Concepts, Mobility, Functional Electrical Stimulation,Spasticity. In: Critchley, E., Eisen, A. (eds) Spinal Cord Disease. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0911-2_32

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