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Introduction
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HistoryofSpinalCordMedicine
JohnF.Ditunno,Jr.,WilliamH.Donovan,andChristina V.Oleson
INTRODUCTION
Inthis journey through the History of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Medicine, we examine three distinct periods. The first is characterized by the “not to treat” philosophythatprevailedfromancienttimestothenineteenthcentury,when,for thefirsttime,advancesinanesthesiology,surgery,andcontrolofinfectionmade the survival of severe neurological traumapossible. In 1914, the “Great War” awakened military medicine to the challenge ofmassive casualties, leading to thenexthistoricalperiodwhichwascharacterizedbyanorganizedapproachto restore the wounded to health and function. This phase we explore in depth because it marked the origin of the rehabilitation approach to SCI comprehensivecare.Respondingtothedemandsposedby20th-centurywarfare, the newly emerging disciplines of orthopedic and neurological surgery developed models of categorical care, which integrated acute medical and surgical treatment with systematic restoration of function through physical trainingandattentiontovocationalandrecreationalcapacity.Pioneersintheart and science of physical training (later Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) established standards in World War I (WWI) reconstruction (rehabilitation) hospitals for triage of the wounded based on severity of disability and set
guidelines for rehabilitation facilities, equipment, and staff. This holistic approach,asadoptedbytheperipheralnerveinjuriescentersinWWI,provided thefuturemodelforSCIcenters.Withsuccessthroughinnovativetreatmentof acute medical complications, the pioneers of SCI centers integrated the restorationoffunctionlearnedfromcategoricalcareanddemonstratedthatSCI wasacondition“tobetreated.”Survivalduetopreventionofbladderandskin complications with restoration of mobility, self-care, and return to home and workinveteransinjuredinWWIIrepresentedarevolutioninmedicine.
The third phase of our journey considers the role of organizations and funding agencies in the development of SCI Medicine. The work of the individual physicians and researchers during WWI and WWII has been enthusiasticallyembracedbyorganizationscommittedtopatientcare,education, and research. International organizations expanded the frontiers of SCI Medicine, establishing standards for neurological assessment and defining the principal characteristics of SCI centers: care from the moment of injury to lifelongfollow-up,largedatabasesofthousandsofsubjectsforclinicalresearch, and standards for professional certification. Consumers have been essential to thesedevelopmentsinpatientcareandresearch.Thestrongestfinancialbasefor comprehensive care in the United States exists in military and veterans’ facilities,withafewinsurersintheWorkersCompensationprogramthatdirect patients to comprehensive SCI centers. This tradition of limited support was evident in the creation of the first US SCI center in Boston in the 1930 and 1940s.CountriessuchasGreatBritainandCanadawithnationalhealthservices provideamoreuniformsystemofcareforveteransandcivilians.
PARTI:EARLYHISTORYOFSCICARE(UNTIL
1916)
Toappreciatethe accomplishmentsand challengesthatfaceusnow andinthe future,itisessentialtohaveacomprehensiveviewofthepast,whetherthefocus is SCI or other areas of medicine. As George Santayana (1863–1952) said, “progress…dependsonretentiveness…Thosewhocannotrememberthepast arecondemnedtorepeatit”(1).PhysicianswhotreatpersonswithSCIshouldbe awareofitsabsorbingpast,whichcanbetracedtothediscoveryof“TheEdwin SmithPapyrus”byan American Egyptologist who purchased and named it in 1862(2).AsHughesexplains,itis(a)thefirstknownrecordextantthatcanbe
calledascientificdocument,(b)thefirstknownimportantmedicaltreatise,(c) the first medical document concerned with trauma, and (d) the first documentationofcasesofSCI(3).ThediscoveryoftheRosettastonein1799, which contained the same hieratic language as the Papyrus as well as the demoticandancientGreekscripts(nowlocatedintheBritishMuseum),enabled Breastedtotranslate thePapyrus fromHieratictoGreekto English.Twoclear cases of SCI are described. The treatment for such conditions that the author (possibly Imhotep) advised was no treatment at all: “an ailment not to be treated.” Given the battlefield conditions he described, certainly no treatment wasavailable thatcouldreturn such awounded soldier toduty. Unfortunately, thatsamehopelessattitudepersisteddownthroughthemillenniaasreflectedin thewritingsofHippocrates,Galen,andphysiciansoftheMiddleAgesthatare carefullyreviewedinarecenttext(4).Itwasnotuntiltheearly19thcenturythat a “renaissance of medicine” yielded an interest in SCI, exemplified by the polemics between Sir Astley Cooper,who favored operative intervention, and SirCharlesBell,whodidnot(5).
ExamplesoffamouspeoplewhosustainedanSCIinrelativelymorerecent timesinclude LordHoratioNelson (1758–1805),whowas felled bya sniper’s bulletattheBattleofTrafalgarandsustainedathoracicSCI;JamesA.Garfield (1831–1881), the 20th president of the United States, who was shot by a disgruntledofficeseeker andsustaineda lumbarSCI, lingeredfor80 daysbut succumbedtodeathsincenothingcouldbedonetoextendhislife;andGeneral GeorgePatton(1885–1945),whosustainedacervicalSCIfromamotorvehicle accidentshortlyafteralliedvictoryintheEuropeanTheater,andsinceheknew nothingcouldcurehisparalysisherefusedallcareandsoonafterpassedaway. Thesecasesillustratethediscouragingstateoftheartthatpersisteduntilthe20th century.
Atthesametime,preludestothesubsequent advancesmust berecognized because we could not have reached the point where life-saving and life­extending treatments and subsequent improvements in quality of life (QOL) could be offered to people with SCI unless certain barriers were overcome in science overall. Significant progress occurred in the following realms: in the mid- to late 19th century and early 20th century, discoveries in the field of microbiology (e.g., Pasteur [1832–1895] and Koch [1843–1910]) proved that diseases were caused by micro-organisms such that preventing and treating infectionnotablyintheformofdrugscouldbeutilized(e.g.,Lister[1827–1912], Halstead [1852–1922], and Fleming [1881–1955]); discoveries of anesthesia
(e.g.,Davy[1778–1829],Morton[1819–1858],andSnow[1813–1858])enabled invasiveprocedurestobeperformedpainlesslyandmethodically;inhematology, blood transfusions became a safe option (e.g., Landsteiner [1868–1943] and Weiner [1907–1976]); and discoveries in the field of imaging, including x-ray (Roentgen[1845–1923]),CTscanning(Oldendorf[1925–1992]), andmagnetic resonanceimaging(MRI-TeslaUnit1956)(6).
Surgicaltreatmentswerealsoadvanced.DamadianandReidbothfacilitated diagnosis and improved the accuracy of operative procedures to reduce complicationsandimproveoutcomes.
Treatments included both closed, Crutchfield (1900–1972), Nickel (1918–
1993),andopenreductionandfixation,Harrington(1911–1980),Dubouset,and others.Nevertheless,these discoveries could not have been applied topersons with SCI unless certain pioneers had come along who recognized that tools existed to translate this knowledge and thereby extend life, maintain health, improve QOL, and enable participation in society. These individuals, to be discussedinthecontextofthecenturyfollowingWWI,includeDonaldMunro (1898–1978);SirLudwigGuttmann(1899–1980),HarryBotterell(1906–1997), AlJousse(1910–1993), Ernest Bors (1900–1990), Estin Comarr (1915–1996), JohnYoung(1919–1990),andAlainRossier(1930–2006)(5,7).
PARTII.SCIREHABILITATION(1916TO PRESENT):ORIGINSINGERMANYANDNORTH AMERICATOPRESENT
Restorationof functionthroughthe rehabilitation oflargenumbersofseverely disabled persons had its origin in WWI and was documented in the English­speaking literature by articles and a handbook on physical therapy (8); these writingsdescribethestandardofcareforBritish,Canadian,andAmericanforces (9). McKenzie and Deavers’ work demonstrated that therapeutic exercises, encompassing graded strengthening of weakened/partly paralyzed muscles, mobilizationoflimbs,traininginwalking,self-care,dancing,andsportsaswell as vocational and fitness training, restored function to thousands of wounded soldiers(8,10).
Historians who recently reviewed the German literature document a long tradition of therapeutic exercise originating in spas and employed by German neurologists/neurosurgeons,includingHeinrichFrenkelandOtfridFoersterprior
to and during WWI and extending to Guttmann after WWII (11). In WWI, German medical care for survivors of SCI was more advanced than that in English-speakingcountriesasevidencedbytheSCImortalityrates:33%forthe Germanforces(12)comparedwith80%amongAmericanforces(5).
In their analysis of the treatment of traumatic spinal injuries, Weiner and SilverciteaspinalunitestablishedbyO.MarburginViennain1915:
Marburg,alreadya professor of neurology, established aspinal unit in
Viennawithateamofspecialistsinurology,neurology,neurosurgeryand
orthopaedic surgery. He described the importance of supervising the
nursing staff and monitoring the patient’s bladder. He incorporated
physiotherapy in his treatment regime and endeavored to return the
patientshome(12).
Foerster,aneurologistbytraining,hadinvestigatedtheeffectofexerciseonthe restoration of function in patients impaired by neurological disorders and advanced the field of neurology beyond diagnosis into practical therapeutics (11,13)(Figure1.1).DuringWWI,heappliedhisunderstandingofneuroscience tosurgeryasheadphysicianatthemilitaryhospitalinBreslauandself-trained himselfasaneurosurgeon.Whenwarbrokeoutin1914,Foersterwasnameda consulting physician of the Sixth Army Corps and head physician of the Festungslazarett (military hospital) in Breslau—a position that he maintained until1920.Duringthe4yearsofconflict,Foerstertreatedthousandsofgunshot injuries to the nervous system. He reported almost 4,000 cases of war-related peripheral lesions and almost 400 cases of lesions to the spinal cord. This expansive experience during the war gave Foerster, who had never formally trainedasasurgeon, legitimacy for his operative interventions onthenervous system(11).
Foersterachievedrecognitionforsurgicalinterventionssuchasrhizotomyto reduce severe spasticity, which facilitated retraining of some patients to walk (14).Hisworkontherestorationoffunctionbyphysical therapyof peripheral nerve lesions was cited by Guttmann as a model for the rehabilitation of neurologicaldisorders (15). In 1931, Foerster published his classic treatise on dermatome mapping, which would be adapted to become one of the major metrics in SCI research on regeneration: the International Standards for NeurologicalClassificationofSpinalCordInjury(ISNCSCI)(16).
AsSilverhasindicated(12,17),theGermantraditionoftherapeuticexercise
coupled with Foerster,who pioneered physical therapy in neurology (13) and mentored Sir Ludwig Guttmann for 10 years prior to his escape from Nazi Germany to England in 1939, must have influenced Guttmann’s enthusiastic integrationofphysicaltreatmentinSCIcare(18).GuttmannreferencesFoerster often in his SCI textbook (1973) on muscle and sensory testing, but not as a source for physical therapy and rehabilitation of SCI. Ruskand Guttmannare oftenpairedinthehistoryofcomprehensiverehabilitationfollowingWWII,but there is no evidence that they formally recognized each other by citations. Deaver, however, whose publications spanned WWI and WWII, was characterized by Rusk in his autobiography (19) as “he who first taught paraplegics to walk” and is cited by Guttmann (1973) for his work at the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled (1938–1947) in New York City. Guttmann also links Deaver’s work on physical rehabilitation to Munro’s advocacyfor“industrialresettlement”inhiscreditstotheUnitedStates(20).
FIGURE1.1GuttmannTribute.
Source: Frankel HL. The Sir Ludwig Guttmann Lecture 2012: the contribution of Stoke Mandeville Hospital to spinal cord injuries. Nature News. Spinal Cord. 2012;50: 790–796.
https://www.nature.com/articles/sc2012109
In his early publications (1946), Guttmann emphasized the importance of
physicalrestoration,whichhedefinesaspreventionofatrophy,contractures,and “compensatorytrainingofthenormalpartsofthebody”toachievethehighest levels of fitness (Figure 1.1). In the introduction to his first paper (18), his physicalmedicinecolleaguesdrewattentiontothe“happypartnership”thatthey achieved with an expert in neurological structure and function. Guttmann’s comprehensiveapproachcombinedphysicalrestorationwithattentiontogeneral nutrition, psychological aspects of SCI, care of skin, bladder, and bowel management. His comprehensive vision for SCI rehabilitation dramatically improvedsurvivalandbecamethestandardofcareinfuturespinalunitsandthe foundation of the expertise of SCI physicians. Guttmann would recruit future SCIphysiciansfrommultiplespecialtiesincludingorthopedics,urology,general medicine,andpediatrics.Inadditiontopioneeringthismodelofcomprehensive careforSCIintheUnitedKingdom,hefoundedthejournalParaplegiaandthe InternationalMedicalSocietyofParaplegia(IMSoP)tofurthertheresearchand disseminationofnewfindingsinthecareofspinalinjuredpersons.Hewasalso responsible for gaining recognition for specialty training in SCI by the Royal CollegeofPhysiciansandSurgeonsinUnitedKingdom(4).Guttmann’simpact onthedevelopmentofspinalunitsandthetrainingofparaplegicsthroughoutthe world in the latter partof the 20th century has rightly earned him the title of “Father”ofSCIcare.AlthoughFoersterandtheGermantraditionoffitnessand sports participation served as background, Guttmann’s ability to apply these principlestotheseverelydisabled,particularlythosepersonswithSPI,inspired theParalympicmovement.Hislegacyisrecordedinhis ownwords:“IfIever did one good thing in my medical career, it was to introduce sport into the treatment and rehabilitation programme of spinal cord sufferers and other severely disabled” (21). His recognition that participation in sports was also participation in society preceded the recognition by the World Health Organization that involvement in sports was an essential element of comprehensivecareofthedisabled.
InNorthAmerica,orthopedicandneurologicalsurgeonsandlaterurologists involved in subacute and chronic care in military or veteran’s hospitals were confrontedandrespondedpositivelytothetotalneedsofthepatientwithSCI. Physicians with primary training in pediatrics, pulmonary medicine, and physicalmedicineandrehabilitationencounteredsimilarchallenges,firstinthe comprehensivemanagementofpoliomyelitisandlaterinSCI.
Orthopedic surgery had an interest in operative management and rehabilitation,utilizing physical therapy and vocationaltrainingdating back to
WWIunder Joel Goldthwait at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston.Goldthwait,ChiefofOrthopedicSurgeryatMGH/HarvardandDirector oftheOrthopedicDivisionof theAmericanExpeditionaryForce,worked with FrankGranger,aphysicaltherapy physician(later physiatrist),duringWWI in thereconstruction(rehabilitation)hospitalsinFranceandtheUnitedStates(9). Granger, who was head of physical therapy at Walter Reed Hospital, had founded the physical therapy department at Boston City Hospital (BCH), the futuresite ofMunro’sspinalunit.Paul Magnuson,an orthopedicsurgeonwho spanned both WorldWars, partnered with John Stanley Coulter to lead in the establishment of rehabilitation units in the Veterans Administration following WWIIandlaterfoundedtheRehabilitationInstituteofChicagoin1960(7).
Stabilization of the thoracic and cervical spine following fractureand SCI led to early mobilization and rehabilitation (22). In 1962, Paul Harrington developed metal rod fixation to correct scoliosis in polio and other neuromusculardiseases—aninterventionwhichwassubsequentlyappliedtoSCI (5).RanchoLosAmigosHospital,withleadershipbyJacquelinePerryandVern Nickel, pioneered halo stabilization in polio patients and later applied it to cervicalSCI(23).Withthedevelopmentoftraumacentersintegratedwithacute SCIunitsinthe1970s,orthopedicsurgeonsatNorthwesternUniversitybrought rehabilitation into the emergency room and acute care setting, a development that would be embraced by the Model SCI Systems (24). While most neurosurgeons were interested in acute surgical management, several notable exceptionswereDonaldMunroandHarryBotterell.Munroiscreditedashaving developed the first comprehensive SCI unit in the United States at BCH (5) (Figure1.2).
Munro’strainingincludedayearofneurosurgicaltraininginPhiladelphiain 1916 under Charles H. Frazier, and may have been his first exposure to the application of physical therapy (physical medicine) to neurological trauma. FrazierandhiswifehadbecomeclosefriendsofMcKenzie,thefirstProfessor ofPhysicalMedicinein thenation,whenhedidbas-reliefsof theirchildrenin
1906.Sincetherewereonly12chairsattheUniversityofPennsylvania(Penn) at the time and Frazier was dean of the medical school, it was likely that McKenzieandFrazierwereveryfamiliarwitheachother’swork(7,25).
FIGURE1.2DonaldMunro.
Source:CourtesyoftheJournalofSpinalCordMedicine.
Munro’s second exposure occurred when he established his neurosurgical serviceatBCHin1929,ayearafterFrankGrangerdiedatage54.Granger,like McKenzieatPenn,developed and led the physical medicine program at BCH from 1908 to 1928, with academic appointments at Tufts and Harvard. When appointed to the military in 1918, he was regarded as a “nationally known pioneer in this field, well qualified to introduce this new form of treatment [physicaltherapy]totheArmy”(26).Hisdepartmentof“physicaltherapeutics” wasregardedastheforemostinthenationbycolleagues,andMunrowasheirto thesetherapistsandphysicalmedicinecolleagues,althoughtheyarenotcitedin hispublications.
Munro was the first spokesman for comprehensive rehabilitation of the spinalcord–injuredperson,andmanyviewed himasone ofthefathersofSCI care (5,27). His innovative approach to the reduction of bladder infection by tidal drainage (drainage of the urinary bladder by means of an intermittent fillingand emptyingapparatus) caughttheattention ofGuttmann, who praised and cited him often (20). His vigorous attention to prevention of pressure injuriesinvolvedbothturningpatientseveryhourandmeticulousnursingcareto prevent skin maceration. Rhizotomy was used in selected cases to reduce spasticityso thatpatients couldbe moreeasilyturned andtaught towalk with braces.IntheirSCIunit,BotterellandJousse(1946)modeledtheirapproachto