Tag: Chronic Pain
Bladder Cancer
You may have heard it from physicians, from family members who have been doing their reading, or from spinal cord injury survivors who go...
Bowel Problems
As a children’s book says, "Everyone poops." Although you may not talk about it or even think about it much, it’s important to your...
Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, accounting for more than 30% of all of their cancers. While spinal cord injury itself...
Exercise
Most people seem to exercise for one or more of four reasons: to improve flexibility, increase strength, increase endurance or aerobic conditioning, or improve...
Fatigue
We’re hearing more and more about fatigue these days. Who cares? Isn’t fatigue just part of getting older? Well, the truth is, new data...
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...
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...
Spasticity – aging with a spinal cord injury
Thirty and forty years ago, no one “in the know” believed that aging with a spinal cord injury would be something we’d care about....
