Tiina Rekand

01.09.2023: Spasticity is a frequent complication of diseases of and injuries to the central nervous system. For patients who have suffered their first stroke with paresis, the estimated prevalence is around 40%; for patients with spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis, it is around 65%; and for patients...

23.09.2019: A spinal cord injury registry has been shown to constitute a useful tool for raising the quality of the treatment provided to patients with a spinal cord injury. There are relatively few spinal cord injuries in Norway, with approximately 120 new patients each year. However, these patients face a...

06.05.2019: An elderly man sustained a cervical spinal cord injury after a fall down the stairs. The rehabilitation process was delayed by repeated infections with few clinical signs. Spinal cord injury also disrupts the innervation of internal organs, which may lead to atypical manifestations of acute...

20.10.2015: Outpatient telemedical follow-up can facilitate quick and ongoing contact between the patient and the primary and specialist healthcare services. A recent pilot study on telemedical follow-up of patients with spinal cord injury and pressure ulcers, conducted at Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital...

15.05.2012: Traumatic spinal cord injury is defined as an acute injury of the spinal cord which results in a varying degree of paralysis and/or sensory disorder (1). Injury to the cauda equina is included in the definition, but other isolated injuries to nerve roots are excluded (2). Injuries to the autonomic...

30.04.2012: Spasticity is a relatively common phenomenon in patients with a disease or injury of the central nervous system, and is a sign of damage to upper motor neurons. Up to 70 % of patients with spinal cord injuries develop spasticity that may cause considerable disability (1) –  (4). How the spasticity...

30.04.2012: Pain is common in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). Up to 80 % of SCI patients are reported to suffer from chronic pain (1). The pain may be of nociceptive or neuropathic type or a combination of the two. Neuropathic pain is caused by damage to or dysfunction of the nervous system, while...

17.04.2012: By definition, a spinal cord injury is an acute traumatic injury to the spinal cord that leads to varying degrees of motor and/or sensory deficits and paralysis (1). Although injury of the cauda equina is included, the definition excludes isolated injuries to other nerve roots (2). The condition can...