Rehabilitation and Treatment of Spinal Cord Injuries
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 2075
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is one of the most debilitating conditions. Every year, about 40 million people worldwide suffer from SCI. Most of them are young men. The treatment and rehabilitation process for trauma caused by SCI is expensive, long and mostly exhausting, requiring a multidisciplinary approach. It causes biophysical, psychosocial and economic problems. The treatment of patients with SCI is an ongoing process lasting many years, starting shortly after the injury with intensive care and early surgical interventions and ending with rehabilitation, which takes many years. At the same time, many problems involving other organs can occur, such as pressure ulcers, spasticity with contractures, and bladder and bowel problems. Patients with spinal cord injury often require care from multiple specialists, delaying a patient’s reintegration with society and leading to psychosocial distress.
As an international journal with global impact, this Special Issue of Healthcare aims to provide high-quality investigations.
This Special Issue seeks empirical and practical studies that consider treatment but especially rehabilitation in relation to SCI on the topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Acute, subacute and chronic rehabilitation in SCI.
- Psychosocial aspects of these diseases.
- Aspects of complications and their treatment in the context of SCI; for example, bladder and bowel issues, pain problems, etc.
- Nutritional aspects.
- Others.
Dr. Beata Tarnacka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- spinal cord injury
- rehabilitation
- food in spinal cord disorders
- healthcare policies
- psychological problems
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