Identification of clinical and rehabilitation groups among patients with cervical tetraplegia

Abstract

During initial and follow up observation were 190 patients with C4-D1 tetraplegia for 7 years, changes in the clinical and functional status were traced, which showed the greatest dynamics in patients with motor levels C6, C7. Patients with cervical tetraplegia, according to the criterion of functional and motor homogeneity, can be divided into 4 clinical and rehabilitation groups: 1) patients with a high level of damage to C4-C6 (functionally dependent); 2) patients with a low level of damage to C7-D1 (functionally independent); 3) patients with complete motor damage (types A and B); 4) patients with incomplete motor damage (types C and D).