Spinal Cord Injury: Board Review

he only review book currently available in this complex field, Spinal Cord Injury: Board Review focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injuries and dysfunction. Focused, high-yield content prepares you for success on exams and in practice, with up-to-date coverage of related injury assessment and management, acute and preventive medical care, common complications, physical, psychological, and vocational disabilities and complications—all equipping you to work as part of an interdisciplinary team with patients of all ages on a lifelong basis. Edited and written by seasoned authors and physicians in PM&R, this unique review tool is ideal for residents, fellows, and practitioners studying or working in the field and preparing to take the spinal cord injury medicine exam. 

Key Features

• Supports self-assessment and review with 200+ board-style questions and explanations.  

• Includes questions on patient management including patient evaluation and diagnosis, prognosis/risk factors, and applied science.  

• Features chapters dedicated to key topics such as anatomy and imaging of the spinal cord; sexual and reproductive health; pressure injuries; pain management; and nutrition, endocrine and immune function in spinal cord injury and dysfunction. 

• Covers all aspects of rehabilitation in spinal cord injury medicine including functional assessment, exercise and modalities, mobility, ADLs, speech, communication and swallowing. 

• Ensures efficient, effective review with content written by experts in physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, psychiatry and psychology and a format that mirrors the sub-specialty board exam outline. 

• Contains references to primary literature that support the answers provided. 

• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices. 

Table of Contents - to be finalised
Questions included with each chapter
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Spinal Cord Injury Boards
Chapter 2: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Prevention of SCI
Chapter 3: Anatomy and Imaging of the Spinal Cord
Chapter 4: Assessment, Classification and Prognosis of Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 5: Acute Evaluation and Management of Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 6: Cardiovascular Issues in Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 7: Pulmonary Issues in Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 8: Gastrointestinal Issues in Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 9: Genitourinary Issues in Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 10: Sexual and Reproductive Health in Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 11: Musculoskeletal Issues in Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 12: Neurological Complications of Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 13: Pressure Injuries
Chapter 14: Pain in Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 15: Nutrition, Endocrine and Immune Function in Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 16: Psychological Disorders in Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 17: Rehabilitation in Spinal Cord Injury

• (reflecting the current board distribution of 10% of the exam being on these topics).
• Includes functional assessment, exercise and modalities (therapeutic exercise, functional estim, modalities, non-traditional therapies), mobility (gait, ambulation/lower extremity orthoses, wheelchairs/other mobility devices, transfers, positioning, and sitting balance), ADLs (adaptive equipment/functional orthosis, architectural adaptations, tendon transfers, environmental control technology), and speech and communication

Chapter 18: Miscellaneous Topics in Spinal Cord Injury

• Includes participation/living with SCI (recreation and sports, community access and driving, vocational rehabilitation, social issues), healthcare systems (rehabilitation team, patient safety, medico-legal issues, advocacy, practice management), clinical and basic science (research and statistical methods, neural injury/regeneration), spinal orthosis, ethics and professionalism, and electrodiagnostic assessment.

Author Information

Edited by Blessen C. Eapen, MD, Chief, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California and David Cifu, MD, David Cifu is an American physiatrist, researcher, and medical educator. He is the Associate Dean for Innovation and System Integration in the School of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, the chairman and Herman J. Flax M. D. Professor of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Virginia Commonwealth University

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