CAPABILITIES OF ELECTRONEUROSTIMULATION IN PATIENTS WITH VERTEBRAL-SPINAL INJURIES

Abstract

The possibilities of epidural electrical stimulation in the complex treatment of patients with spinal injury in the acute and late periods of traumatic disease of the spinal cord. The authors presented the analysis of treatment results of 356 patients with a spinal-cord injury at age 16 to 71 years, including 293 patients in the acute and early periods of trauma, and 63 - in the late period. Injuries of the cervical spine were observed in 145 (40,7%) men, thoracic - in 59 (16,6%), thoracolumbar - in 89 (25,0%), lumbar - in 63 (17,7%). As the result of the conducted electropulse influence on the spinal cord in the acute period of the trauma we succeeded in achieving positive outcomes in 80,9% of patients, and that is 11,7% better, than in the comparison group. That allowed us to restore lost functions of the spinal cord more completely in more than the half of the patients with consequences of vertebral cerebro-spinal trauma.

Keywords

• electroneurostimulation
• spinal cord injuries