Post Surgical Spinal Evaluation

ICF Based Comprehensive Evaluation for Post-Acute Spinal Cord Injury

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility of the ICF for initial comprehensive evaluation of early post-acute spinal cord injury. METHOD A comprehensive evaluation of 62 early post-acute spinal cord injury (SCI) patients was conducted by rehabilitation team members, such as physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, nutritionists, medical social-workers, and nurses. They recorded e...

Psychometric evaluation of the post-discharge surgical recovery scale.

UNLABELLED RATIONALE, AIM AND OBJECTIVES: Day surgery patients are discharged after a short period of postoperative surveillance, and reliable and valid instruments for assessment at home are needed. The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a Swedish version of the post-discharge surgical recovery (PSR) scale, an instrument to monitor the patient's recovery after day...

Post Spinal Stenosis

Spinal stenosis is a term that means narrowing of the spinal canal or the nerve root foramina. It is thus divided into central or lateral stenosis. Central stenosis produces compression of the thecal sac: soft tissue (ligamentum flavum and disc) may contribute as much as 40% to this compression. It is more common in males because their spinal canal is smaller at the L3-L5 level. Lateral stenosi...

3D rotational angiography (3DRA) for surgical planning and post-surgical evaluation of intracranial aneurysms

Anterior spinal surgery alone in the surgical treatment of thoracolumbar spinal tuberculosis: a prospective study

 Background: One of the important sites for extrapulmonary TB involvement is the skeleton. Tuberculous spondylitis (Pott’s disease) comprises 50-70% of the skeletal tuberculosis. Methods: In this case series study, we prospectively investigated the result of anterior surgery alone (anterior debridement, fusion and instrumentation) in the patients with spinal tuberculosis. The patients with imma...