a high number of people in the world suffered from spinal cord injury (sci). spinal cord injuries are happen due to falls from height, accidents, climbing, sports and etc. emergency care according to the standards not performed immediately after sci. a significant enhancement in the number of mortality and complications was observed every year. the aim of this study is to prevent the mortality,...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of emergency immobilization on neurologic outcome of patients who have blunt traumatic spinal injuries. METHODS A 5-year retrospective chart review was carried out at 2 university hospitals. All patients with acute blunt traumatic spinal or spinal cord injuries transported directly from the injury site to the hospital were entered. None of the 120 patients seen...

On 11 August 2012, twin earthquakes measured 6.3 and 6.4 on the Richter scale hit three towns (Ahar, Varzaqan, and Heris) in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran resulting in tragic loss of three hundred lives and leaving thousands of injured. The aim of the present study was to report the spinal injuries during recent earthquake in northwest Iran, its consequences and management. Of the 923 hospital...

OBJECTIVE To investigate changes in the core temperature and body surface temperature in patients with incomplete spinal cord injuries (SCI). In incomplete SCI, the temperature change is difficult to see compared with complete spinal cord injuries. The goal of this study was to better understand thermal regulation in patients with incomplete SCI. METHODS Fifty-six SCI patients were enrolled, ...

BACKGROUND Prompted by an increase in interventional pain treatments performed at the level of the cervical spine, we investigated the characteristics and patterns of injury in malpractice claims collected from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2008. METHODS We compared claims arising from cervical pain treatments with all other chronic pain claims collected from the American Society of Anesthe...

objectives: wheelchairs are the prime mobility aid of persons with spinal cord injuries. manual wheelchair propulsion puts a lot of demand on the cardiopulmonary as well as the skeletal system. the main purpose of the study was to compare the effects of both arm ergometry training and progressive resistance exercise training of upper limbs on resting heart rate and distance covered during wheel...

background in recent decades, the incidence of spinal cord injuries has increased. in a systemic review on epidemiology of traumatic spinal cord injury in developing countries reported 25.5/million cases per year. objectives to assess the quality of life (qol) of the veterans among iran-iraq war with chronic spinal cord injuries (sci) and to evaluate long-term impressions of sci on their qualit...

The aim of this manuscript was to summarize the demography and changing trends geriatric spinal injuries enumerate challenges special considerations in care injuries. PubMed, Scopus Embase databases were searched for literature on spine fractures using MeSH terms ‘aged’, ‘aged, 80 over’, ‘elderly’, ‘spinal fracture/epidemiology’, fracture/therapy*’ keywords pertaining same. search results scree...

STUDY DESIGN  Retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVES  To find out: (1) if the energy of trauma (high and low) influence the outcome after cervical spinal cord injury; (2) if time to decompression and degree of injury (complete and incomplete) influence the outcome after high- and low-energy cervical spinal cord injury. METHODS  Twenty-one consecutive patients with low-energy cervical spinal...