An analysis of the effectiveness of comprehensive rehabilitation with paraplegic pinal cord injury Patients / 中华物理医学与康复杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the effectiveness of comprehensive rehabilitative therapy with paraplegic spinal cord injury (SCI) patients. Methods Forty patients with SCI-caused paraplegia were divided randomly into a rehabilitation group and a control group. The routine treatment was administered to both groups, and comprehensive rehabilitative therapy was also administered to patients in the rehabilitation group as an addition. Functional assessments and somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) tests were performed with the two groups pre-treatment and 30 days post-treatment. Results The rehabilitation group achieved, on average, greater improvement in their physical functions , as demonstrated by their much higher scores in terms of the Barthel index than those of the control group ( P