REHABILITATION OF THE PARAPLEGIC PATIENT
- Donald A. Covalt, M.D.
Abstract
• The end-result in rehabilitating the paraplegic patient is preparing him for a job, or at least preparing him for further vocational training that will result in a job. Total rehabilitation requires the cooperative services of the neurosurgeon, urologist, orthopedic surgeon, and physiatrist. The series of activities presented, which follow definitive care, are directed to the paraplegic patient's adjustment to walking and daily living.
Footnotes
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Read in the Panel Discussion on Rehabilitation of Patients with Paraplegia before the Section on Physical Medicine at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Chicago, June 12, 1956.
