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Spinal Cord Injury

Board Review

  • 1st Edition - August 13, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Blessen C. Eapen, David Cifu
  • Language: English

The only review book currently available in this complex field, Spinal Cord Injury: Board Review focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of traumatic and… Read more

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The only review book currently available in this complex field, Spinal Cord Injury: Board Review focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injuries and dysfunction. Focused, high-yield content prepares you for success on exams and in practice, with up-to-date coverage of related injury assessment and management, acute and preventive medical care, common complications, physical, psychological, and vocational disabilities and complications—all equipping you to work as part of an interdisciplinary team with patients of all ages on a lifelong basis. Edited and written by seasoned authors and physicians in PM&R, this unique review tool is ideal for residents, fellows, and practitioners studying or working in the field and preparing to take the spinal cord injury medicine exam.

Key features

  • Supports self-assessment and review with 200+ board-style questions and explanations.

  • Includes questions on patient management including patient evaluation and diagnosis, prognosis/risk factors, and applied science.

  • Features chapters dedicated to key topics such as anatomy and imaging of the spinal cord; sexual and reproductive health; pressure injuries; pain management; and nutrition, endocrine and immune function in spinal cord injury and dysfunction.

  • Covers all aspects of rehabilitation in spinal cord injury medicine including functional assessment, exercise and modalities, mobility, ADLs, speech, communication and swallowing.

  • Ensures efficient, effective review with content written by experts in physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, psychiatry and psychology and a format that mirrors the sub-specialty board exam outline.

  • Contains references to primary literature that support the answers provided.

  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Readership

Residents, fellows and current practicing physicians in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurosurgery

Table of contents

1 Neurophysiology of the Spinal Cord

2 Physiology and Pathophysiology

3 Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Genetics

4 Prevention of Spinal Cord Injury

5 Clinical and basic research

6 Section 2: Acute Injury Assessment and Care

6 Prehospital Evaluation and Management

7 Critical Care Management

7 Neurological Assessment and Classification

8 Medical and Surgical Options Management of Acute Spinal cord Injury

8 Neuroimaging

9 Electrodiagnostics in Spinal Cord Injury

10 Functional Assessment

11 Prognosis and Outcome Management

12 Cardiovascular Management

13 Autonomic Dysreflexia

14 Section 3 : Medical Management

14 Pulmonary

15 Sleep disorders in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury

16 Thromboembolism/DVT

17 Neurogenic Bowel

18 DYSPHAGIA AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY

19 Neurogenic Bladder

20 UROLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN PERSONS WITH SPINAL CORD INJURED

21 Sexuality/ Reproductive

22 WOMEN’S HEALTH AFTER SCI

23 Musculoskeletal Pain and Overuse Injuries

24 Heterotopic Ossification

25 Spine Fractures, Dislocations, and Instability

26 Scoliosis and Late Spine complications

27 Spinal Orthosis

28 POSTTRAUMATIC SYRINGOMYELIA

29 Spasticity

30 Thermoregulation and Sweating

31 TBI and SCI

32 Neuromodulatory and dis-modifying agents

33 Pressure Injuries

34 Nutrition, weight management and body composition

35 Endocrine / Metabolic

36 Infection. Immune NOS

37 Pain

38 Psychological

39 Traumatic Myelopathy

40 NON TRAUMATIC MYELOPATHIES

41 SECTION 4: Myelopathy

41 Myelopathy without specified etiology

42 Healthcare maintenance

43 Spinal Cord Injury and Aging

44 SECTION 5: Long-Term Management and Outcomes

44 Exercise and modalities

45 FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY FOLLOWING SPINAL CORD INJURY

46 Activities of daily living

47 COMMUNICATION AND SCI

48 PARTICIPATION: LIVING WITH SCI

49 REHABILITATION TEAM

Review quotes

"This book is an overview of the basic topics of spinal cord injury medicine for those pursuing spinal cord injury medicine boards." ©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Chinenye C. Nnoromele, BA, MD (Shirley Ryan AbilityLab) Doody’s Score: 93 – 4 Stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 8, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Blessen C. Eapen

Blessen Eapen is the Chief of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) Department at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and is a Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Eapen is a physiatrist, researcher, and medical educator who has received numerous professional awards and honors and has authored many peer-reviewed publications, chapters and books in the field of rehabilitation medicine
Affiliations and expertise
Chief, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

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David Cifu

David Cifu is an American physiatrist, researcher, and medical educator. He is the Associate Dean for Innovation and System Integration in the School of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, the chairman and Herman J. Flax M.D. Professor of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Virginia Commonwealth University, staff physiatrist at the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center, founding director of the VCU-Center for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering and senior TBI specialist in the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Dean of Innovation and System Integration and Eminent Scholar; Herman J. Flax, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Senior Consultant, Sheltering Arms Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine; Senior TBI Specialist, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Researcher, Central Virginia Veteran’s Healthcare System; Principal Investigator, (LIMBIC-CENC), Richmond, Virginia, USA