Browse the latest research summaries in the field of rehabilitation for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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BMJ Open, 2013 • March 1, 2013
The study focuses on the epidemiology of healthcare and support needs, addressing the lack of a methodology for routine-costed evaluation of service provision in relation to individual needs. The Need...
KEY FINDING: Significant shortfalls were identified in the provision of rehabilitation, social support and equipment.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2012 • January 1, 2012
The case report details the successful transition of a ventilator-dependent patient with high-level tetraplegia from tracheostomy to noninvasive ventilation (NIV). This transition was performed to add...
KEY FINDING: Conversion to NIV resolved tracheostomy-associated complications like stomal enlargement and tracheal granulation.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2012 • January 1, 2012
This study assessed the peak force during wheelchair propulsion over obstacles from the Wheelchair Skills Test in individuals with spinal cord injury. The results demonstrate that more difficult wheel...
KEY FINDING: Statistically significant increases in peak forces were observed when propelling over obstacles compared to level surfaces.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2012 • January 1, 2012
The study evaluated the reliability, construct validity, and sensitivity of the TRI-HFT in individuals with subacute C4 to C7 SCI. Results indicated high interrater reliability, moderate to strong con...
KEY FINDING: The TRI-HFT demonstrated high interrater reliability, with an intercorrelation coefficient (ICC) of 0.98.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2012 • January 1, 2012
This study evaluated the Needs Assessment Checklist (NAC) as an assessment tool for spinal cord injury (SCI) rehabilitation. The NAC was found to have high internal consistency and validity, and was s...
KEY FINDING: The Needs Assessment Checklist (NAC) demonstrated high internal consistency and acceptable internal validity.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2012 • January 1, 2012
Many needs were encountered the first year post rehabilitation by people with SCI and their family members. Results show that some of these needs are well met for participants. It is important to ackn...
KEY FINDING: The most frequently mentioned needs for participants with SCI are SCI specialized health care, income support, equipment and technical aids, general health care, adapted transport, home support, and adapted housing.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2012 • October 1, 2012
This retrospective analysis evaluated the effectiveness of specialized respiratory management for individuals with acute cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). The study focused on patients with C1-C4 SCI...
KEY FINDING: All patients' respiratory status improved with specialized respiratory management, with improvements often seen within a week of admission.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2012 • January 1, 2012
The principles of spinal cord injury clinical trial programs are briefly reviewed as one example of the challenge faced by most human studies of neurologically directed therapeutic interventions, incl...
KEY FINDING: RCTs usually provide the strongest evidence for a treatment effect that most everyone will accept with a high degree of confidence.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2012 • January 1, 2012
This study investigates dysphagia in patients with acute cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) and its association with respiratory complications. The results indicate that dysphagia is relatively common ...
KEY FINDING: Dysphagia was found in 30.9% of individuals with acute cervical SCI.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2012 • January 1, 2012
The study examined wheelchair skill performance of manual wheelchair users with SCI. Many participants had difficulty performing community and advanced level skills. Additional wheelchair skills train...
KEY FINDING: A majority of the manual wheelchair users were unable to complete the community and advanced level WST skills.