RESTORATION OF FUNCTION THROUGH NEUROMUSCULAR REEDUCATION IN TRAUMATIC PARAPLEGIA

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IN SERIOUS accidents resulting in fracture or dislocation of one or more vertebrae, the spinal cord may also be injured. In complete transection of the spinal cord, all voluntary motion and sensation are lost permanently below the level of the injury. In partial transection of the spinal cord, function below the injury may be absent at first and return to a variable extent, depending on the severity of the damage to specific tracts. The spontaneous return of function may occur in the course of a few weeks but sometimes takes a number of months. It is generally agreed that if no voluntary motion or sensation has returned in the course of a year after the injury there is no expectation that any function can ever be restored. If, in the original injury, the spinal cord was completely severed, there is no hope at present of restoration of voluntary motion or

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