The Rehabilitation of Patients Totally Paralyzed below the Waist: With Special Reference to Making Them Ambulatory and Capable of Earning Their Living

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END-result figures on patients that have been paralyzed as the result of an injury to the spinal cord or cauda equina are, as far as I know, not presently available. There is a general impression, however, that prior to the onset of the Second World War the mortality among this group of patients was high, invalidism was extreme, and any rehabilitation was purely fortuitous. Recently, the general outlook has become more optimistic. There is a vague belief that possibly some of them can be rehabilitated and their invalidism diminished. This is usually qualified, however, by the statement that, of course, . . .

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