[Spinal cord injury: potential for neurologic and functional recovery].
Since antiquity, spinal cord injury was recognised mortal. At the beginning of the 19th century, the situation had hardly changed and the mortality rate remained high. Since the Second World War the care of the spinal man evolved considerably. Over the last past years, promising experiments on the neurological recovery in animals were achieved. While waiting for their application to the human being, global rehabilitation in specialised centres offers to spinal cord injured patient the possibility of functional recovery with social and professional reinsertion.
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Clinique romande de réadaptation, av. Grand-Champsec 90, 1950 Sion. abdul.al-khodairy@crr-suva.ch
D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D020127:Recovery of Function; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation*