Spinal Cord Injury Update

Spring 2013: Volume 22, Number 1

• Getting Your Zzzz's: Sleep and Spinal Cord Injury
  Sleep is essential for health and quality of life. While anyone can have sleep problems, having a spinal cord injury affects your sleep in unique ways and increases your risk for sleep apnea, a serious health condition.
  
  
• Tips from the Wheel World
  Our new column features tips and ideas for making life with SCI a little better, from individuals living with spinal cord injuries. Learn from others and submit your ideas.
  
  
• Literature Review: 12 abstracts of medical journal articles on SCI topics
  Read about recent research findings on walking, experimental trials, bladder management, bone fractures, and other topics related to spinal cord injury.
  

• SCI Forum videos and reports you may have missed:
  
  • Everyday Nutrition for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
  • Intrathecal Baclofen Therapy for Spasticity Management in Spinal Cord Injury
  • Aging with a Spinal Cord Injury
    
    
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