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462146

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1979-9-27
pubmed:abstractText
During the acute immobilization period 18 patients, with unstable fractures of the spine together with, in most cases, a spinal cord lesion, caudally of T2, were tilted in bed or on a tilting table. Twelve of these patients began the tilting already in the second week after the injury and reached +30 degrees on the 15th day, +50 degrees on the 37th day and +90 degrees on the 65th day following the injury. All patients were kept under observation at regular intervals up to 2 years. A comparison between similar patient groups, treated strictly conservatively, and the present patient groups did not show any differences either in respect to deformities in the spinal column, expected reduction in the spreading of the spinal cord lesions or in the subjective symptoms of the patients. In the hope of reducing the complications induced by protracted immobilization, the authors recommend that patients with unstable fractures of the spinal column, caudally of T2, with or without spinal cord lesion, begin a specified tilting program already in the second week following the injury.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0036-5505
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
47-61
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1979
pubmed:articleTitle
Early mobilization of patients with unstable fractures of the thoracic and lumbar spine. A 2-year follow-up study.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article