Review on the Various Treatments of Traumatic Paraplegic Patients | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

Historical spinal cord injury is a severely disabling condition. Spinal cord injury was first described as “an ailment not to be treated”. Hippocrates introduces the concept of reduction through traction. Galen found out that traumatic lesions lead to motor functional loss Paulus introduced the surgical procedure, decompressive laminectomy. Summering attempted the first surgical treatment for spinal cord injuries. While Donal Munro described bladder management and social and vocational rehabilitation. In the First World War 90 of patients who suffered spinal cord injury died within one year and only 1 survived more than 20 years.