Spinal Cord Injury: Diagnostics, Treatment, and Rehabilitation

Dear Colleagues,

Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) cause serious disabilities in patients. Every year, about 40 million people worldwide suffer from SCIs. The most common causes of SCI are traffic accidents, falls and sports injuries. Injury is usually caused by flexion or hyperextension and flexion–rotation mechanisms.

SCIs not only cause abnormalities in neurological and physical function, but also many complications, such as pain, pulmonary and cardiovascular problems, neurogenic bladder and bowel with urinary tract infections, orthostatic hypotension, pressure ulcers, deep-vein thrombosis, heterotrophic ossification, spasticity, autonomic dysreflexia, etc. These complications may influence the patient’s life expectancy and quality of life. The treatment and rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord injury may take many years; it starts shortly after the injury and is often lifelong. In addition, the clinical screening, differential diagnosis and prognosis of spinal cord injury are worthy of our research focus.

We invite you to contribute to our Special Issue entitled "Spinal Cord Injury: Diagnostics, Treatment, and Rehabilitation".

Dr. Beata Tarnacka
Guest Editor

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