Cervical Spinal Cord Injury – Physical Therapy

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Physical and occupational therapy is critical in the rehabilitation of a patient who has suffered a spinal cord injury with loss of function. It’s important both to learn how to use the limbs that now are less functional than they were before and it’s important in order to recover additional function that may not have recovered otherwise. And following a reconstructive procedure, it is critically important to teach the patient how to use the new nerve connections or muscle connections, which were achieved with the reconstructive surgery.