Experience of Makeshift Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Center Established After the 2005 Earthquake in Pakistan

Experience of makeshift spinal cord injury rehabilitation center established after the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan.

To the Editor: Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) are frequently reported in earthquakes.1-3 Pakistan is among 9 countries that account for more than 80% of earthquake-related injuries.4 An earthquake on October 8, 2005, in Kashmir, Pakistan, left more than 73,000 persons dead. This earthquake resulted in an estimated 650 to 750 SCIs.5 Management of SCI victims offered challenges such as saturation of...

Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

P 94: The Systemic Inflammation after Spinal Cord Injury

Spinal cord injury (SCI) actuate to complex cellular and molecular interactions within the central nervous system in a heave to repair the initial tissue damage. The pathophysiology of acute spinal cord injury (SCI) involves primary and secondary mechanisms. Neuroinflammation is an important secondary injury process in SCI. The local inflammatory microenvironment within the injured spinal cord ...

Retrospective study of spinal cord injury patients admitted to spinal injury rehabilitation center, Sanga, Banepa, Nepal.

Spinal cord injury is a serious problem that affects many facets of an individual's life. This was a retrospective study which included data from all patients admitted to the Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Center (SIRC), Sanga with spinal injuries over a 4 year period between January 2008 and January 2011. The overall objective of the study was to determine the epidemiology of spinal injury patie...

Economic Evaluation of Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injury patients in Iran in 2019

Objectives: Despite the various available evidence that rehabilitation interventions are effective for spinal cord injury patients, these interventions usually impose costs on the health system. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the cost-effectiveness of these interventions for the health system of countries through economic evaluation. Based on this, in this study, we have examined the cos...