Compression Paraplegia

Paraplegia.

Nurses caring for people who have sustained an injury resulting in paraplegia must have an understanding of both the psychological and physical effects. This Update examines the nurse's role in preparing the patient for the future.

Understanding Paraplegia

The extent to which that hospital, under direction of Dr. L. Guttmann, has been responsible for progress in the treatmen'1 paraplegia is well known throughout the world. During the First World War. 80% of the victims of spinal injury died in the first few months. Now, the death'r:j, is less than 8%, and over 85% of the patients treated at Stoke Mandeville are gaiii^. employed, lead a full and i...

Hysterical paraplegia.

Between 1944 and 1984 20 patients were admitted to a spinal injuries centre with a diagnosis of traumatic paraplegia. They subsequently walked out and the diagnosis was revised to hysterical paraplegia. A further 23 patients with incomplete traumatic injuries, who also walked from the centre, have been compared with them as controls. The features that enabled a diagnosis of hysterical paraplegi...

Pott's paraplegia of late onset. The cause of compression and results after anterior decompression.

Twenty-two patients with late onset Pott's paraplegia presenting at a mean of 18 years after initial symptoms were reviewed an average of seven years after treatment by anterior decompression and fusion. Fourteen patients had active disease, and in 12 of these, activity at the internal kyphus was the direct cause of the paraplegia. In the other two, a soft healing bony ridge was the cause. The ...

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