Tag: Injury Prevention
RELIEVE SKIN PRESSURE
Relieve Skin Pressure
In addition to routinely checking your skin, a second important way to prevent pressure sores is to relieve skin pressure by changing...
SKIN CARE
Take Routine Care of Your Skin
The third way to prevent skin sores, the most serious problem in SCI, is to keep your skin healthy....
AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA (HYPERREFLEXIA)
Autonomic Dysreflexia, also known as Hyperreflexia, is a state that is unique to patients after spinal cord injury at...
USA Diving accident survivor Brooke Burns helps raise awareness about diving injury prevention
It's a startling fact that as many as 1,000 spinal cord injuries occur each year due to shallow water diving. With swimming pools officially...
Injury Prevention Program Sponsored ‘Ghost Out’
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 15, 2006) – UK HealthCare's Trauma Service Injury Prevention Program sponsored a "Ghost Out" last week at East Jessamine High School,...
As new budget is considered, fight is on for federal funding
WASHINGTON - The Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center in Short Hills, N.J., is mobilizing a big political effort to fight President Bush's...
SCI Prevention is Crucial to Decreasing the Impact on Individuals and Society
Newswise — According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), an estimated 250,000 to 450,000 people in the United States are living with...
Nurse heads program to lower injury rates
Virginia R. Corrigan knows how devastating brain and spinal cord injuries can be.
While working in the trauma unit at Christiana Hospital in 1993, the...
Safe Kids – Car seats, boosters save children’s lives
Most parents know that babies and toddlers need to be restrained in car seats — properly installed and adjusted — every time they ride...
Program fights mistakes that last lifetime
Chad Thomas said that one moment in the summer of 1998 changed his life forever.
Then 18 years old, the now 25-year-old Thomas fell asleep...
