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About Spinal Cord Injury
Approximately 250,000 – 400,000 individuals in the United States have spinal cord injuries. Every year, approximately 11,000 people sustain new spinal cord injuries – that’s thirty new injuries every day. Most of these people are injured in auto and sports accidents, falls, and industrial mishaps. An estimated 60 percent of these individuals are 30 years old or younger, and the majority of them are men.
Functional Electrical Stimulation, Clinical Applications in Spinal Cord Injury
What is FES? How can FES help me? Will FES help me walk again? These are just a few of the questions that are frequently asked by our Hotline callers.
Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury: Information and Resources
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a catastrophic injury that causes multi-system changes and far reaching consequences. It not only affects the injured person but has a significant impact on family, friends and all those who love and care for the injured individual. Pediatric SCI has profound implications for the child/youth, his/her parents, siblings and extended relationships.
CARF Facilities By State
CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) is a not-for-profit organization that accredits human services providers throughout the United State , Canada, and Western Europe in the areas of rehabilitation, employment, aging, and family services.
Autonomic Dysreflexia
Autonomic Dysreflexia (AD), also known as Hyperreflexia, is a potentially dangerous complication of spinal cord injury (SCI). In AD, an individual's blood pressure may rise to dangerous levels and if not treated can lead to stroke and possibly death. Individuals with SCI at the T-6 level or above are at greater risk. AD usually occurs because of a noxious (irritating) stimulus below the level of the injury. Symptoms include headache, facial flush, perspiration, and a stuffy nose.
Spinal Cord Injury Treatment and Cure Research
When someone sustains a spinal cord injury (SCI), one of the most difficult issues to deal with is that there is no "cure" at the present time. One would think that, with the "explosion in scientific knowledge" we hear about almost every day, SOMEONE would be doing SOMETHING to find a cure for people with SCI. If we can achieve the impossible in other areas, like transplanting entire organs and organ systems from one person to another and isolating human genes, why can't we figure out why the spinal cord does not repair itself and then do something to correct this biological problem? Compared to a lot of the scientific puzzles that HAVE been solved, it shouldn't be all that difficult...
F.A.Q.
Here is a list of the most popular questions related to SCI...
Help Restore Access to Power Weelchairs
Urge cms to rescind new medicare policy that harms beneficiaries by severely restricting wheelchair access.
Talking Points for Advocates
Everything you have to know to protect mobility rights.
Pressure Sores
A pressure sore (or bed sore) is an injury to the skin and tissue under it. Sitting or lying in the same position will begin to cut off the flow of blood to that area, blocking oxygen and vital nutrients from maintaining healthy tissue. When the tissue becomes starved to too long a period of time it begin to die and an pressure sore starts to form.