PRACTICE BASED EVIDENCE ASSIGNMENT

Facilitator –
DPT 8th semester
Student information:
Student name Maira Tamkeen
Roll No. F16DPT 043
Date of Submission May-1st -2020
Email Address

ASSIGNMENT:
 Think about the research topic of your interest. Search any evidence/research studies on
that topic on Google scholar. Summarize the whole process of your literature search.

The topic of my research is physiotherapy in spinal cord injury. I selected this because of my
great interest in it and tremendous views allured me to go through this wonderful piece of work
on spinal cord injury.

Firstly, I opened Google journal scholar and read some articles related to physiotherapy.
Physiotherapy rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injuries gathered my attention. I opened
journal of physiotherapy 62, 4-11,2016 by Lisa A Harvey.

The most obvious consequences of spinal cord injury is paralysis. It has social, financial and
psychological implications and increase people susceptibility to late-life renal complications as
well as osteoporosis and other problems. Physiotherapists treat an array of different problems
related to SCI and these involves many body systems, even though underlying pathology is
neurological in nature. Acute medical management of people with SCI focusing on minimizing
further neurological damage to the spinal cord and optimizing recovery stability of the spine is
clearly a priority. This can be done through bed rest or surgically. The results indicated the
ability to walk at 1 year is best predicted from 5 variables collected within 15 days of injury.

(www.iscos.org.uk/international sci-data-sets)

Then I opened other treatments and ultimately see the prevalence of orthostatic hypertension
during acute spinal cord injury. By A Illman, K Stiller, M William.
To investigate it, it’s associated signs and symptoms and the resulting limitations to treatments
during initial physiotherapy treatments involving mobilization for patients with acute SCI.
Methods used for it is non-invasive measurement of systolic and diastolic (BP). At 1 minute
intervals for the 1st 10 minutes of physiotherapy treatments that involve mobilization.

Reference of some research papers on SCI:

 Ahuja, C. S., Wilson, J. R., Nori, S., Kotter, M. R., Druschel, C., Curt, A., & Fehlings, M. G.
(2017). Traumatic spinal cord injury. Nature reviews Disease primers, 3(1), 1-21.

 Angeli, C. A., Boakye, M., Morton, R. A., Vogt, J., Benton, K., Chen, Y., ... & Harkema, S. J.
(2018). Recovery of over-ground walking after chronic motor complete spinal cord injury. New
England Journal of Medicine, 379(13), 1244-1250.

 Yousefifard, M., Rahimi-Movaghar, V., Nasirinezhad, F., Baikpour, M., Safari, S., Saadat, S., ... &
Hosseini, M. (2016). Neural stem/progenitor cell transplantation for spinal cord injury treatment; A
systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience, 322, 377-397.

 Rouanet, C., Reges, D., Rocha, E., Gagliardi, V., & Silva, G. S. (2017). Traumatic spinal cord
injury: current concepts and treatment update. Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria, 75(6), 387-393.