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Table of Contents

Overview
Patient Presents
Social and Medical History
Initial Assessment and Investigations
Diagnosis
Team Members
Acute Management I
Acute Management II
Surgery
Early Rehabilitation
Late Rehabilitation I
Late Rehabilitation II
Discharge
Post-discharge
References

Authors:

Quinette Louw, PhD, MASP
and Stephanie Lochner, BSc

University of the Western Cape

Case Editor:
Carmen Abbott, PT, MS
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Paraplegic Rehabilitation in South Africa

Patient Presents


Zamani On 18 November 1995, Zamani, a 24-year-old science student, fell from a moving train. He was immediately admitted to a general public hospital. Since spinal injury was suspected, he was transferred to a specialist spinal cord injury hospital.


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