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Rehabilitation

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The state of rehabilitation in the National Health Service is, at best, variable and it is often deplorable. Exceptions are provided by the outstanding work of Special Units treating injuries to the spinal cord, the brain, or some progressive neurological disorders. In many other areas rehabilitation has become, yet again, the Cinderella speciality.

Rolfe Birch M. Chir, FRCP&S (Glas), FRCS (Edin), FRCS (Eng) by election Professor in Neurological Orthopaedic Surgery, University College, London

Visiting Professor, Department of Academic Neurology, Imperial College, London

Honorary Orthopaedic Consultant, Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street, London

The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London

Raigmore Hospital, Inverness

Honorary Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Royal Navy

Consultant in Charge, War Nerve Injuries Clinic at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court, Leatherhead, Surrey

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    Rolfe Birch M. Chir, FRCP&S (Glas), FRCS (Edin), FRCS (Eng) by election (Professor in Neurological Orthopaedic Surgery)

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Birch, R. (2010). Rehabilitation. In: Surgical Disorders of the Peripheral Nerves. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-108-8_14

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