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Default Question on Treatment of Football Player with Spinal Cord Injury? - 12-22-2008, 03:19 AM

I have been reading that the football player with a spinal cord injury was treated with cold fluids to slow the formation of scar tissue. Is this standard practice today? What exactly is the recommended treatment for someone with a potential spinal injury?
   
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Default 12-25-2008, 08:25 PM

it was actually a very new procedure and one that the nerosurgeons just learned at a seminar a few weeks earlier, i heard it was developed out of florida and this case was the first time it was used so quickly (within 10 minutes of accident) im a big bills fan and have been following pretty closely on kevin's condition, its a miracle that someone can sustain a life threatening spinal cord injury and be moving his limbs 2 days later, i applaud those doctors.
   
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Default 12-30-2008, 07:23 PM

The standard of care is usually the use of steroids to reduce swelling and inflammation in the acute stages of spinal cord injury followed by surgical stabilization. The use of cold fluids for this purpose is not widespread.
   
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Default 01-03-2009, 02:47 PM

Well to answer your question. This topic is actually a controversal topic. But currently most neurologists still suggest treatment with high dose steriodial drugs like Solumedrol. The idea being that these drugs will prevent secondary injury to the spinal cord by preventing swelling of the spinal cord and its surrounding tissue. This treatment was shown to be effective by the National Acute Spinal Cord Injury series of studies. But other than that they obviously preform surgical correction of any fractured or dislocated vertebral vertebrae.
   
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