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Neurologic recovery and neurologic decline after spinal cord injury
J W Little1, S P Burns, J J James
1Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. JWL128@u.washington.edu
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America
|February 19, 2000
Abstract:
Physicians caring for patients with spinal cord injury facilitate neurologic recovery by optimizing nutrition and general health, by coordinating active exercise and functional training to enhance the underlying synapse growth, reversal of muscle atrophy, and motor learning, and by controlling interfering spasticity. SCI physicians also must monitor for neurologic decline during initial rehabilitation and later in life, diagnose promptly and accurately such decline, and orchestrate the appropriate intervention.