Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, Which Way Forward?

Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, which way forward focuses on the outcomes of rehabilitation methods used to improve the health status of spinal cord injury subjects. It has been tried to collect all of the available evidences in this regard. Various kinds of rehabilitation methods including, exercise, use of functional electrical stimulation, mechanical orthoses, external powered orthoses, hybrid orthoses and robotic devices have being used for this group of subjects. In this book the outcomes of rehabilitation based on these approaches have been compared. Moreover it has been tried to represent the absolute values of the loads applied on bone and an assistive device in walking of paraplegic subjects. The material of this book can be used to design various assistive devices in order to improve the performance of this group of subjects and to improve their physiological health.

Mohammad Taghi Karimi is currently an Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Faculty of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan Iran. He has published more than 50 papers in high rank journals on biomechanics, motion analysis and rehabilitation of handicapped subjects.