Skull Traction and Cervical Cord Injury: A New Approach to Improved Rehabilitation

This book is about surgical treatment of the sequelae of compressive spinal cord injury. It describes the deforming effects of this trauma on spinal cord tissue, especially on axially oriented nerve fibres, and shows how the intramedullary stress involved leads to overstretching or rupture of these fibres and consequent neurological deficit. The author proves that skull traction is similarly harmful and should therefore be excluded from therapy. Instead, he offers a new surgical method, cervicol