Spinal Cord Injury Transitions and Wellness Program

 

Health and Wellness Classes

 

Bowel Management

• Staying Healthy After a Spinal Cord Injury patient education pamphlets:
  • Taking Care of Your Bowels: The Basics
  • Taking Care of Your Bowels: Ensuring Success

Bladder Management

• SCI Forum report and video: Management of Urinary Problems Caused by Spinal Cord Injury (2009)
  
  
• SCI Forum report and video: Advances in treatment of urologic conditions in the SCI patient (2006)
  
  
• Staying Healthy After a Spinal Cord Injury patient education pamphlets:
  • Bladder Management
  • Urinary Tract Infections: Intermittent Catheterization
  • Urinary Tract Infections: Indwelling (Foley) Catheter

Skin Care and Pressure Sores

• Staying Healthy After a Spinal Cord Injury patient education pamphlets:
  • Taking Care of Pressure Sores
  • Maintaining Healthy Skin (Part I)
  • Maintaining Healthy Skin (Part II)
    
    
• Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center SCI Consumer Factsheets:
  • 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

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