SCI Patient Education Pamphlets

 

Staying Healthy after a Spinal Cord Injury*

• Pain and SCI
• Depression and SCI
• Taking Care of Pressure Sores
• Maintaining Healthy Skin (Part I)
• Maintaining Healthy Skin (Part II)
• Taking Care of Your Bowels: The Basics
• Taking Care of Your Bowels: Ensuring Success
• Bladder Management
• Urinary Tract Infections: Intermittent Catheterization
• Urinary Tract Infections: Indwelling (Foley) Catheter

*The Staying Healthy after a Spinal Cord Injury series was developed by the Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System.

Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Consumer Information**

• Employment after Spinal Cord Injury
  

• Spasticity and Spinal Cord Injury
  

• Safe Transfer Technique
  

• The Wheelchair Series:

  • Getting the Right Wheelchair: What the SCI Consumer Needs to Know
  • The Manual Wheelchair: What the SCI Consumer Needs to Know
  • The Power Wheelchair: What the SCI Consumer Needs to Know
    
    

• Skin Care and Pressure Sores

• Part 1: Causes and Risks of Pressure Sores
  
• Part 2: Preventing Pressure Sores
  Supplements:
  • - How to do Pressure Reliefs (Weight Shifts)
    - Building Skin Tolerance for Pressure
    - Areas of the Body at High Risk for Pressure Sores
    
• Part 3: Recognizing and Treating Pressure Sores
  Supplement:
  • - Stages of Pressure Sores: Illustrations
    
    

• Pain after Spinal Cord Injury

  • Supplement: Activity Modification for Musculoskeletal Pain

**The Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Consumer Information series was developed by the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center in collaboration with the SCI Model Systems.

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