Dr. Katz is board certified in the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, board certified in the Subspecialties of Spinal Cord Injury Medicine and Brain Injury Medicine, and certified by the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners. He enjoys membership with multiple professional associat...
Faced with an average length of stay (LOS) a full twenty days longer than the national average for spinal cord-injured patients, case managers at one hospital took advantage of their rehab center's existing spirit of interdisciplinary cooperation to foster a pathway that would bring LOS in line...
ADMISSION OF A PATIENT WITH AN ACUTE SPINAL CORD INJURY When the Centre was being planned it was decided that there were two fundamental necessities in order to achieve the quickest and highest quality primary treatment. The first of these was that all unnecessary movement of the patient should ...
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IRCCS Fondazione S Lucia, Rome, Italy; 4Spinal Cord Injury Rehab Program, GF Strong Rehab Centre, Vancouver, Canada Study design: Direct observation of a constrained consensus-building process in three culturally independent five-person panels of rehabilitation professionals from the US, Italy and Can...
Objectives: The objectives of this study were to describe what women with longstanding spinal cord injury (SCI) feel they are experiencing as they age, how they are coping and what they require in order to ensure their continued social and economic parti
Dobkin, B. H., Curt, A. & Guest, J. Cellular transplants in China: observational study from the largest human experiment in chronic spinal cord injury.Neurorehabil. Neural Repair20, 5–13 (2006).Independent evaluation of participants who had been transplanted with cells from the fetal olfact...
Spinal cord injury leads to immense disability and loss of quality of life in human with no satisfactory clinical cure. Cell-based or cell-related therapies have emerged as promising therapeutic potentials both in regeneration of spinal cord and mitigati
for advances in the optimal manage ment of the traumatic spinal cord injury patient in the acute phase include the availability of more fully-trained, mobile paramedics and the transfer of patients promptly to a hospital situation with excel lent facilities and properly trained staff ... ...
Spinal Cord Injury Units in Philadelphia-USA, Rome-Italy and Vancouver-Canada. Methods: Each of the three panels came to independent consensus about recovery priorities in SCI utilizing the features resource trade-off game. The procedure involves trading imagined levels of independence (resources) acro...