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현재 페이지 위치 : Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine > Special Clinics > Spinal Cord and Neuromuscular Disease Clinic

Spinal Cord and Neuromuscular Disease Clinic

 

This clinic provides diagnosis, treatment, and multidisciplinary rehabilitative services for individuals with diseases of the spinal cord, vertebral column, anterior horn cells, and muscular dystrophy, Patients who visit this clinic usually complain of acute or slow onset of motor weakness, sensory abnormalities, bladder or bowel habit change and gait disturbance.

For accurate diagnosis, special diagnostic tools such as electromyography, blood labs, X-ray, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, bone-scan, myelography, cerebral spinal fluid tapping and muscle or nerve biopsy are applied when necessary. Treatment consists of physical modality, exercise, education, neural branch block for spasticity management, and other supportive measures.