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Contents<br />
Intro<br />
Spinal 101<br />
© New Zealand Spinal Trust, 2014<br />
Authors Note 4<br />
Acknowledgements 5<br />
Foreword "What’s all this Rehab about anyway?"<br />
Getting Started<br />
Pathway Planning 7<br />
Contents 8-14<br />
A word about medical terms... 16<br />
Spinal Cord Impairment 7<br />
Immediate Treatments 7<br />
Surgery 7<br />
Stabilising 17<br />
Immediate Effects of Injury 18<br />
Get to Know Your Spine! 19<br />
Your Spinal Column 20<br />
Your Spinal Cord & Nerves 21<br />
Peripheral Nerves & Functions 22<br />
Your Nervous System 23<br />
The Somatic Nervous System 3<br />
The Autonomic Nervous System 23<br />
Your Spinal Cord 24<br />
Messages & Signals 25<br />
Sensory Messages 5<br />
Motor Messages 5<br />
Reflex Messages 25<br />
What is Spinal Cord Impairment? 26<br />
What happens to my Nervous System? 27<br />
Spinal Shock, Reflexes & Spasm 28<br />
Spinal Shock 8<br />
Reflexes & Spasm 28<br />
Your Bowel 9<br />
Reflex Bowel 29<br />
Flaccid Bowel 9<br />
Your Bladder 29<br />
Skin & Sensation 30<br />
Hope of Recovery & Cure 1<br />
Recovery 31<br />
Cure 31<br />
Descriptions 2<br />
Lesion 2<br />
Level of Injury 2<br />
Complete 2<br />
Incomplete 2<br />
Central Cord Syndrome 2<br />
Anterior Cord Syndrome 2<br />
Posterior Cord Syndrome 32<br />
Brown-Sequard Syndrome 33<br />
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