Research Bibliography

ASIA members are on the forefront of spinal cord injury research. Research is being done in many areas, and some of that research is published here. Any ASIA member interested in publishing an abstract on this site, please e-mail Suzanne Groah, M.D.,MSPH. Any consumer interested in participating in an individual project is encouraged to directly contact the person listed under the project.

Through the efforts of the ASIA Research Committee, a spinal cord bibliography has been compiled, listing relevant articles in the areas of:

emergency management of SCI
nonsurgical techniques to promote recovery from injury
acute care of SCI-surgical techniques
neurologic recovery
rehabilitation
medical complications: autonomic dysreflexia/cardiovascular; bladder; bowel
infectious disease
metabolism

carbohydrate
lipid
energy expenditure
thyroid function
anabolic hormones

pulmonary
skin/bone/contractures
spasticity
psychology
sexuality

infertility and pregnancy

demographics

life expectancy/mortality and causes of death

prevention
economics/lifetime direct and indrect costs
employment
community reintegration