Tag: Chronic Pain
What is autonomic dysreflexia?
The Autonomic Nervous System often becomes hyperactive in people with spinal cord injury. Autonomic Dysreflexia manifests in large increases in blood pressure (hypertension) with...
Phantom pain after spinal cord injury is result of hypersensitive neurons in thalamic region...
Yale researchers report the first evidence that phantom pain following spinal cord injury is the result of hypersensitive neurons in the thalamic region of...
How is spinal cord injury classified?
In 1990, the American Spinal Cord Injury Association (ASIA) proposed a uniform classification system that had five categories, defined in Table 1. Motor...
National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month
More than 240,000 Americans, including 44,000 veterans, currently suffer from a spinal cord injury (SCI). Eleven thousand more sustain these injuries every year. The...
Interacting With Your Doctor
As part of a growing health and cost conscious public, we now take more responsibility for our health. More concerned about what we eat,...
Understanding Those Medical & Research Articles
Ever have trouble making sense out of articles in medical, scientific, and research magazines? This brochure will give you some pointers as you try...
Those Scary Statistics
Most authors who publish research articles use statistics to make their conclusions. Hold on to your seats! Statistics have a way of losing even...
Accepting New Help
The world we live in - and we ourselves - place a very high value on physical independence. We're raised on the expectation that...
Aching Shoulders?
It's no surprise that many people with spinal cord injuries have aches and pains. Often, that aching and paining targets the joints. And, with...
Am I Ready For A Van?
Most spinal cord injury survivors who are used to driving a car aren’t too excited about switching to a modified van. “They’re too big....
