Handbook of Spinal Cord Injuries: Types, Treatments and Prognosis

Most spinal cord injury causes permanent disability or loss of movement (paralysis) and sensation below the site of the injury. Paralysis that involves the majority of the body, including the arms and legs, is called quadriplegia or tetraplegia. When a spinal cord injury affects only the lower body, the condition is called paraplegia. Many scientists are optimistic that important advances will occur to make the repair of injured spinal cords a reachable goal. In the meantime, treatments and rehabilitation allow many people with spinal cord injury to lead productive, independent lives. This new and important book gathers the latest research on spinal cord injury from around the world.

Chapter 1 - Recovery of Functions after Spinal Cord Injury in Bonnet Macaques: Behavioral Analysis, pp. 1-131
Authors / Editors: R. Suresh Babu, Shubhangee Mungre, Jeffrey H. Kordower, Gowri Sethu, D. Sridevi, P. Periasamy and A. Namasivayam

Chapter 2 - Sexual Life after Spinal Cord Injury, pp. 133-166
Authors / Editors: Tatjana Sramkova and Radmila Fajtova

Chapter 3 - Assessment of Sexual Potential and Treatment of Sexual Dysfunctions in Men and Women with Spinal Cord Injury, pp. 167-229
Authors / Editors: Frédérique Courtois, Kathleen Charvier4, Jean-Guy Vézina, Serge Carrier, Nicolas Morel Journel, Géraldine Jacquemin and Albert Leriche

Chapter 4 - Building of New Motoneurons in the Human Spinal Cord upon Coordination Dynamics Therapy to Improve Finger Functions in Motoric Complete Cervical Spinal Cord Injury, pp. 231-264
Authors / Editors: G. Schalow

Chapter 5 - Relative Coordination between Neuron Firing and Generation of a Motor Program in the Human CNS, pp. 265-295
Authors / Editors: Giselher Schalow

Chapter 6 - Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells and Biocompatible Polymers in SCI Repair, pp. 297-320
Authors / Editors: A. Hejčl, P. Jendelová and E. Syková

Chapter 7 - Spine and Spinal Cord Injury in Pediatrics, pp. 321-348
Authors / Editors: Wihasto Suryaningtyas

Chapter 8 - Messengers and Methods of Disseminating Health Information among Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury: A Scoping Review, pp. 349-374
Authors / Editors: Guy Faulkner, Paul Gorczynski, Kelly Arbour, Lori Letts, Dalton Wolfe and Kathleen A. Martin Ginis
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Chapter 9 - Vascular Lesions of the Spinal Cord, pp. 375-396
Authors / Editors: Robert H. Andres, Raphael Guzman, Alain Barth, Marwan El-Koussy, Arjun V. Pendharkar and Gerhard Schroth

Chapter 10 - Alteration in Articular Structure of Knee Joints in the Progression of Contractures after Spinal Cord Injury, pp. 397-426
Authors / Editors: Hideki Moriyama and Yoshiko Tobimatsu

Chapter 11 - Aging Population and Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury, pp. 427-446
Authors / Editors: Julio C. Furlan

Chapter 12 - Traumatic Stress Following Spinal Cord Injury, pp. 447-463
Authors / Editors: Rushina Harishkumar Bhatt and Samuel T. Gontkovsky

Chapter 13 - Motoneuron′s Vulnerability to Spinal Cord Injury: Changes in Nitric Oxide Synthase and Parvalbumin Immunoreactivity, pp. 465-481
Authors / Editors: Nadežda Lukáčová, Alexandra Dávidová, Andrea Schreiberová, Ľudmila Capková, Jozef Radoňak, Malgorzata Chalimoniuk and Jozef Langfort

Chapter 14 - Spinal Cord Injuries, pp. 483-499
Authors / Editors: Kasim Abul-Kasim, Anita Strömbeck and Pia C Sundgren

Chapter 15 - Impaired Coordination between Oscillatory Firing FF and FR-Type Motor Units in Parkinson’s Disease and Patients with Spinal Cord Injury, pp. 501-517
Authors / Editors: Giselher Schalow

Chapter 16 - Rare Endocrine-Metabolic Causes of Spinal Cord Injury, pp. 519-533
Authors / Editors: James K Schmitt

Chapter 17 - Neurologic Injury in Pediatric Scoliotic Deformity Correction, pp. 535-548
Authors / Editors: Ahmet Yılmaz Şarlak and Bilgehan Tosun

Chapter 18 - Bladder Cancer in Patients with a Spinal Cord Injury, pp. 549-564
Authors / Editors: Ja Hyeon Ku, Cheol Kwak and Hyeon Hoe Kim

Chapter 19 - Using Unpredicted Vocational Outcomes Following Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury to Identify Powerful, Novel Return-to-Work Barriers and Facilitators, pp. 565-578
Authors / Editors: Gregory C. Murphy

Chapter 20 - A Preliminary Study of Leisure-Time Wheeling and Aerobic Fitness in People with Spinal Cord Injury, pp. 579-592
Authors / Editors: Rebecca L. Bassett, Amy Latimer and Kathleen A. Martin Ginis

Chapter 21 - Physical Activity Correlates and Determinants for Persons with Spinal Cord Injury: Limitations and Future Directions*, pp. 593-610
Authors / Editors: Kelly P. Arbour-Nicitopoulos and Kathleen A. Martin Ginis

Chapter 22 - Traumatic Brain Injury in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury: Neuropsychological Consequences and Rehabilitation, pp. 611-622
Authors / Editors: Anu Tolonen

Chapter 23 - Chronic Pain after Spinal Cord Injury- An Update, pp. 623-634
Authors / Editors: Tiina Rekand

Chapter 24 - An Evidence-Based Review of Spinal Cord Injury Decompression in Experimental Animals and Human Studies, pp. 635-663
Authors / Editors: Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Mohammad R Rasouli, Harvey Smith and Alexander R Vaccaro

Chapter 25 - Spinal Cord Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, pp. 665-679
Authors / Editors: A.Tulga Ulus and Sadi Kaplan

Chapter 26 - Physiopathology of Spinal Cord Injury, pp. 681-691
Authors / Editors: Sergio Henrique do Amaral

Chapter 27 - Spinal Injury Following Lumbar Puncture, pp. 693-702
Authors / Editors: Seema Kalra, Mathew Keating and Alexandra J. Sinclair

Chapter 28 - Spinal Balloon Nucleoplasty: Hypothetical Treatment for Herniated Nucleus Pulposus, pp. 703-711
Authors / Editors: Sena Topatan and Ahmet Basaran

Chapter 29 - Quantitative Evaluation of Walking in Paraplegic Persons, pp. 713-719
Authors / Editors: Józef Opara