title: Current concepts: spinal injuries and rehabilitation.
abstract: Spinal cord injuries and their catastrophic effects require a treatment infrastructure able to provide an integrated process of management, including rehabilitation from injury and on an ongoing basis. This is particularly important because the incidence of spinal cord injuries is small. Better outcomes and cost efficiency with such an infrastructure have been established, but further knowledge is required to solve the remaining controversies in some aspects of management.
authors.affiliation: Midlands Centre for Spinal Injuries, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, UK.
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: el Masry
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Short
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D016896:Treatment Outcome