Tag: Spinal Cord Injury
Spinal Cord Injury Bowel Management
The bowel is the last portion of your digestive tract and is sometimes called the large intestine or colon. The digestive tract as a...
What are Schwann Cells?
Description of Schwann Cells provided by Inner Learning Online. Larger axons passing through Peripheral nerves commonly are enclosed in sheaths called "Schwann cells."...
Legal Forms & Issues
Spinal Cord Injury Legal Issues, Legal Issues, & A Few Law Firms
News & Information
InjuryBoard.com - Spinal Cord Injury Legal & Health News
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Coping skills
An accident that results in paralysis is a life-changing event, whether you've lost movement in your legs and lower body or all four extremities....
Treatment
Fifty years ago, a spinal cord injury was usually fatal. Today, there's still no way to reverse damage to the spinal cord. But advances...
Complications
If you recently experienced a spinal cord injury, it might seem like every aspect of life just became a lot more complicated. After all,...
Screening and diagnosis
Paramedics and emergency workers are trained to treat people who have suffered a traumatic head or neck injury as if they have a spinal...
When to seek medical advice
Spinal cord injury isn't always obvious. Numbness or paralysis may result immediately after a spinal cord injury or gradually as bleeding or swelling occurs...
Risk factors of Spinal Cord Injury
Although a spinal cord injury is usually the result of an unexpected accident that can happen to anyone, some groups of people have a...
Causes of a Spinal Cord Injury
Together, your spinal cord and your brain make up your Central Nervous System, which controls most of the functions of your body. Your spinal...
