title: Management of chronic myelopathy symptoms and activities of daily living.
abstract: Many disorders can injure the spinal cord resulting in long-term chronic myelopathy. Spinal cord dysfunction influences the homeostasis of multiple organ systems ranging from the heart or lung to the integument, thus presenting a wide variety of challenges for medical management. Although most of our knowledge about the consequences of myelopathies derives from the study of traumatic spinal cord injuries, similar complications occur in myelopathies of all etiologies. The authors survey some of the important clinical issues that the general neurologist needs to consider in caring for patients with chronic spinal cord disease.
authors.affiliation: San Francisco VA Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, California 94121, USA.
authors.forename: Karunesh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ganguly
authors.forename: Gary M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Abrams
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D062207:Brain-Computer Interfaces / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D002128:Calcium Metabolism Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D000072038:Cardiac Rehabilitation; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D010243:Paralysis / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*