Daily Archives: August 17, 2005
Heart Disease
What's all the confusion about "complete" and "incomplete?" Complete usually means "total" or "whole," while incomplete usually means "unfinished," or "not yet perfect." Although...
Incomplete SCIs: The Early Days
What's all the confusion about "complete" and "incomplete?" Complete usually means "total" or "whole," while incomplete usually means "unfinished," or "not yet perfect." Although...
Incomplete SCIs: Down the Road
This is the second of two brochures about incomplete spinal cord injuries. The first, Incomplete SCIs: The Early Days, discusses some of the issues...
Medications
Some of these may sound familiar. Are you ...
taking more than one prescription drug?
getting prescriptions from more than one doctor or pharmacy?
taking one or...
Optimal Health
What Is It and How to Get It
You are over your rehab and are reaching a level of health that you feel good about....
Osteoporosis
Rick was getting dressed one morning just sliding on his pants and pulling up a sock. He heard a loud “SNAP.” Broken hip,...
Posture
You may find it harder to sit up straight at the table. You may notice a certain crookedness when glancing in a mirror or...
Quality of Life: What’s Important
Researchers have much data showing that people with spinal cord injuries have a high quality of life. Many people are surprised by this. "How...
Skin: It’s too Much Pressure!
You’ve probably heard enough about skin to last a lifetime. It’s THE thing that health care professionals hammer on the most. And with good...
Smoking
You already know that a spinal cord injury causes an Impairment of the muscles involved in breathing the higher the injury, the greater...
