Spinal Cord Injury Update

Fall 2005: Volume 14, Number 3

• Diaster and Disability
  • Emergency Preparedness Resources .
  • UW emergency medical team responds to Katrina.
    Story and photos of UW emergency medicine director Dr. Kathleen Jobe's trip to New Orleans to provide medical care to seriously ill Hurricane Katrina survivors.
    
• Pressure ulcer treatment
  Pressure ulcers (pressure sores, bedsores, decubitis ulcers) are a frequent, life-disrupting complication of SCI; the risk of pressure ulcers increases over the lifetime and recurrences are common. At the UW's Harborview Medical Center, the departments of plastic surgery and rehabilitation medicine team up to take a comprehensive rehabilitation approach to pressure ulcer treatment and the prevention of recurrences.
  
• SCI Forum:
• Update on spinal cord injury research
  On April 12, 2005, Dr. Trent Tredway , assistant professor of neurological surgery at the University of Washington, presented a lecture covering new knowledge in the area of SCI recovery research, including the progress of current clinical trials and plans for future studies.
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine
  The latest SCI Forum speakers were local practitioners of three CAM modalities: therapeutic massage, naturopathy and acupuncture.
  
• Literature Review: 12 abstracts on SCI topics
  
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