Directed rehabilitation reduces pain and depression while increasing independence and satisfaction with life for patients with paraplegia due to epidural metastatic spinal cord compression

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-10

  Ruff, Robert L ^a,b   Adamson, Van W ^a,b   Ruff, Suzanne S ^a   Wang, Xiaofeng ^c  

^a LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer rehabilitation; Cord compression; Depression; Metastatic cancer; Myelopathy; Pain; Paraplegia; Satisfaction with life; Spinal; Spinal epidural metastasis; Survival

Indexed keywords

CANCER REHABILITATION; CORD COMPRESSION; DEPRESSION; METASTATIC CANCER; MYELOPATHY; PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL EPIDURAL METASTASIS;

HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; NEUROLOGY; SKIN;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER AND BOWEL MANAGEMENT; CANCER PAIN; CANCER REHABILITATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; METASTASIS; NUTRITION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPLEGIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARE; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPIROMETRY; VETERAN;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PARAPLEGIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY THERAPY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34249991679     PISSN: 07487711     EISSN: 07487711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2005.10.0168     Document Type: Article

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