1. Development and functional anatomy of spine and spinal cord.- 2. Neurological classification and evaluation of spinal cord injury.- 3. Epidemiology of spinal cord injury.- 4. Spinal shock.
- 5. Acute management of spinal cord injury.- 6. Incomplete spinal cord injuries: syndromes.- 7. Nontraumatic spinal cord injuries.- 8. Syringomyelia.
- 9. Cauda equina injury.- 10. Autonomic dysfunction.- 11. Cardiovascular dysfunction.- 12. Respiratory dysfunction.
- 13. Orthostatic hypotension.- 14. Autonomic dysreflexia.- 15. Electrolytes and metabolic dysfunction.- 16. Deep vein thrombosis.
- 17. Dysfunction in thermal regulation.- 18. Neurogenic bladder dysfunction.- 19. Neurogenic bowel dysfunction.- 20 Sexual dysfunction.- 21.
Pressure ulcer.- 22. Heterotopic ossification.- 23. Spasticity.- 24. Pain dysfunction.- 25.
Spinal cord injury in children.- 26. Spinal cord injury in elderly.- 27. Neurological deterioration after spinal cord injury.- 28. Associated brain injury in spinal cord injury.- 29.
Function evaluation and functional goals.- 30. Upper extremity in tetraplegic.- 31. Psychological responses.