The Rehabilitation of Patients Totally Paralyzed below the Waist: With Special Reference to Making Them Ambulatory and Capable of Earning Their Living

Abstract

IF he has been properly treated, every patient with a spinal-cord or cauda equina injury who is intelligent and Cooperative and has the use of the shoulder, arm and hand muscles can be made ambulatory; can have such control of the bladder and bowels as to sleep through the night without either getting up or wetting himself; can carry out ordinary activities throughout the day without soiling himself with feces or having to evacuate his bladder oftener than once every three hours; can lead a normal social life, and within the limits of his intellectual capacity, can earn a satisfactory . . .