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The Origins of the Treatment of Traumatic Spinal Injuries

Author(s) -

Marie-France Weiner,

John Russell Silver

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

european neurology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.573

H-Index - 77

eISSN - 1421-9913

pISSN - 0014-3022

DOI - 10.1159/000365287

Subject(s) - world war ii , medicine , george (robot) , kingdom , history , political science , law , art history , paleontology , biology

It is widely acknowledged that Donald Munro in the United States (1936) and Ludwig Guttmann in the United Kingdom (1944) are the founders of the modern treatment of spinal injuries. However, Germany was the birthplace of neuropathology and led the field in neurology and psychiatry. The first effective spinal injury units were established by Wilhelm Wagner in Königshütte, Silesia and Emil Kocher in Bern, Switzerland at the end of the 19th century.

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