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Advances in the Management of Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries
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Special Issue "Advances in the Management of Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries"

A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Neurology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2023) | Viewed by 936

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Satoshi Maki

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Guest Editor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
Interests: spinal cord; spinal cord injury; spine surgery; orthopedic surgery; diffusion tensor imaging; fMRI
Dr. Kazu Kobayakawa
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Guest Editor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
Interests: spinal cord injury; spine surgery

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a life-changing event that causes sensorimotor dysfunction in patients. Although the recovery of neural function after SCI is still inadequate, the management of SCI has improved over the last three decades.

In terms of diagnosis and prognosis, novel MRI techniques have the potential to significantly improve prognostic capacity by quantifying the extent of tissue damage and estimating spinal cord function. For treatment, neuroprotective interventions to protect damaged tissue and reduce secondary damage are important approaches to SCI, and multiple therapies are currently being investigated and tried. Nerve regeneration strategies are expected to help people in the chronic phase of SCI. In addition, technical aids such as functional electrical stimulation and epidural stimulation are integrated into rehabilitation.

In this Special Issue on ‘Advances in the Management of Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries’, we seek clinical studies that address the current state of the art in diagnosis and prognosis, as well as new strategies for the treatment and rehabilitation of spine and spinal cord injury. Both original research papers and comprehensive review papers are welcome.

Dr. Satoshi Maki
Dr. Kazu Kobayakawa
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Clinical Medicine is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • spinal cord injury
  • spinal injury
  • diagnosis
  • prognosis
  • treatment
  • rehabilitation
  • magnetic resonance imaging

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The Correlation between Cervical Fusion Length and Functional Outcomes in Patients with Traumatic Spinal Cord Damage—A Registry-Based Cohort Study
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Yannick Rau
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Roland Thietje
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Arndt-Peter Schulz
,
Marc Auerswald
,
Ralf Böthig
and
Sven Hirschfeld
J. Clin. Med. 2022, 11(19), 5867; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11195867 - 04 Oct 2022
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This study aims to assess if there is an evident correlation between fusion length and rehabilitation success after trauma to the cervical spine that could potentially be used to predict functional outcomes. This monocentric study was conducted in the Spinal-Cord-Injury center of the [...] Read more.
This study aims to assess if there is an evident correlation between fusion length and rehabilitation success after trauma to the cervical spine that could potentially be used to predict functional outcomes. This monocentric study was conducted in the Spinal-Cord-Injury center of the Berufsgenossenschaftliches Klinikum Hamburg. Data sets of 199 patients from the Spinal-Cord-Injury center admitted between the beginning of 2003 and the end of 2018 were subjected to statistical analyses. The Spinal Cord Independence Measure II (SCIM II) difference between admission and discharge was chosen as the primary outcome variable of a multiple linear regression analysis, including several other variables. The length of fusion, SCIM at admission and the International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury (ISNCSCI) values at admission could be identified as significant predictors. The cervical fusion length could be identified as an independent predictor of the functional outcome within our model. This correlation most likely mediates for the range of motion as well as partly for injury severity. This is much harder to evaluate in a newly admitted rehabilitation patient than a single numerical value that represents its rehabilitative implications, such as fusion length. Together with an initial assessment of the SCIM and ISNCSCI, it provides a solid basis for outcome prediction. Full article
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