Factors predicting motor recovery and functional outcome after traumatic central cord syndrome: A long-term follow-up

Spine

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 2303-2311

  Dvorak, Marcel F ^a,d   Fisher, Charles G ^a   Hoekema, Joel ^c   Boyd, Michael ^a,b   Noonan, Vanessa ^a   Wing, Peter C ^a   Kwon, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c St Joseph's Hospital   (United States)

^d D 6 Heather Pavilion ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Education; Function; Health related quality of life; Incomplete spinal cord injury; Outcomes; Spasticity; Traumatic central cord syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANUS CONTINENCE; ASIA MOTOR SCORE; BLADDER FUNCTION; CENTRAL CORD SYNDROME; COMORBIDITY; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE ASSESSMENT MEASURE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SPASTICITY;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYNDROME;

EID: 27144517474     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000182304.35949.11     Document Type: Review

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