Two-Year End-Results in the Total Rehabilitation of Veterans with Spinal-Cord and Cauda-Equina Injuries

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Abstract
IN AN earlier paper the results obtained in paraplegic and paraparetic veterans after one year of definitive therapy under my direction at Cushing Veterans Administration Hospital, Framingham, Massachusetts, were summarized.1 Certain comparisons were made with the results obtained in an even larger series of my patients from the Boston City Hospital, and certain minimal end results were suggested. Another year has now elapsed, and it is advisable to publish the two-year figures. Despite the information available since 1940, and despite the organized public demonstration of the possibilities of rehabilitation in these and other chronic invalids, there is virtually a complete . . .