Consumer Articles

• Aging with SCI
• Bladder Care
• Coronary Heart Disease
• Exercise and Recreation
• General
• Health and Wellness
• Nutrition and Weight
• Osteoporosis
• Pain Management
• Peer Mentoring
• Pressure Sores Prevention
• Research Updates
• Sexuality and Reproductive Issues
• Special Interest
• Travel

Aging with SCI

• Accepting New Help
• Aging, Exercise and Spinal Cord Injury
• Aging and SCI
• Aging with a Disability: What’s it Like
• Gettin' Old by Gary Karp
• Life care plans: An emerging area for occupational therapists
• Other Complications of Spinal Cord Injury: Hyperthermia
• Posttraumatic Heterotopic Ossification
• Spinal Cord Injuries
• Spinal Cord Injury - InfoSheet #12 "Heterotopic Ossification"
• The Mystery of Heterotopic Ossification and How it Affected My Life
• What Women Need to Know about Aging with SCI
  

Bladder Care

• A Bacterial Partnership
• Bladder Cancer
• Bladder Care and Management
• Bladder Management of People with Spinal Cord Dysfunction When Traveling in a Plane
  
• Increased Bladder Cancer Risk in SCI Linked with Indwelling Catheters
• New U.S. Medicare Policy Encourages Healthier Approach to Bladder Management and Catheter Use
• Overactive Bladders Getting Help From Botox
• Spinal Cord Injury Bladder Management
• Uric Acid And Spinal Cord Injury Treatment: Novel Approach Holds Potential For Inhibiting Central Nervous System Damage

Coronary Heart Disease

• Acute Coronary Syndromes (Heart Attack; Myocardial Infarction; Unstable Angina) Angina
• Aggressive Heart Pacing May Work Best In Some Spinal Cord Patients
• Autonomic Dysreflexia in Spinal Cord Injury
• Cardiovascular Concerns in Spinal Cord Injury
• Chronic Conditions
• Heart Disease
• Heart Disease Risk for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
• Living with Spinal Cord Injury and Smoking
  

Exercise and Recreation

• Bankshot Basketball
• Body Building & SCI
• Chair Tai Chi (webpg with daily exercises & tips) Seated exercises for healing and strengthening
  
• Community Voice: Everyone Can Dance
• Exercise
• Exercise recommendations for individuals with spinal cord injury
• Exercises for Paraplegics Offered at Wheeling YMCA
• Get Into the Swim
• Getting Equipment Gets Harder
• Handcycling 101
• No Limits - Exercising With a Disability
• Non-Traditional Exercise as a Way of Preventing Secondary Conditions - Part I
• Physical Activity after SCI
• Pilates for Individuals with SCI
• Resistance Training for Persons with Physical Disabilities
• SCI Range of Motion Exercises
• Secondary Condition Prevention: Building Your Own “Health Empowerment Zone"
• T'ai Chi:  An Effective Exercise Program for Absolutely Everyone
• Teaching others to stay fit
• Tennis Anyone? Wheelchair players find tennis a good match
• The Flexiciser: Your Range of Motion Alternative
• The SCI Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale (ESES): development and psychometric properties
• This Poor Man's Exercise System
• Weight Gain
• Wheelchair Tennis- Video
• Yoga for Disability- Matthew Sanford at Mind Body Solutions
• Wheelchair Tai Chi

General

• Cabin Fever 105 degrees
• Don't Be A Wheelchair Potato!
• Craig Hospital Educational Brochures
• Wha’ever…A Teenager’s Guide to Spinal Cord Injury

Health and Wellness

• A Study of Efficiency of Breathing exercises to improve Pulmonary function in Tetraplegic and High Paraplegic subjects
• Benefiting from PT and OT Services Beyond Initial Rehabilitation
• CROWD: Depression
• Diabetes and Spinal Cord Injury
• Disability and receipt of clinical preventive services among women
• Focus on Secondary Condition Prevention: Physical Activity to Reduce Obesity in Children with Disabilities
• Introduction to the Wellness and Risk Assessment Profile, or "WRAP"
• My NCPAD: E-Calculators-tools to help you reach health goals
• *New Video Series on Secondary Conditions of SCI
• Paraplegic chronicles his journey to healing mind-body connection
• Respiratory Management Following SCI
• Spinal Cord 101: Possible complications
• Spinal Cord Injury (SCI): Spine Surgery and Complications
• The Respiratory System and SCI
• "Who, me? Drink too much?": use and abuse don't decrease with age, alcohol + aging + SCI = a risky combination
• Yes You Can! A Guide to Self-Care for Persons With Spinal Cord Injury- (Third edition) now available online for Free
  

Nutrition and Weight

• 20 superfoods for weight loss
• A Question of Digestion: The Glycemic Index and You
  
• Cholesterol
• CROWD: Managing Weight
• Cutting the Fat
• Do I Need a Degree to Read a Food Label?
• Factors Affecting Nutrient Absorption
• Food Choices for Your Eyes!
• Go Your Own Weigh
  
• Healthy Grocery Shopping on a Budget
• Healthy Weight Body Calculator
• Introduction to Food Guide Pyramid
• Introduction to Food Labels
• Is Something Fishy?
• Lifestyle for Healthy Eating
• Nutrition Spotlight: The Fat Debate
• Obesity Growing as Health Concern for People with Spinal Cord Injury
• Skin: It's Too Much Pressure!
• Spinal Cord Injuries & Weight Gain / Obesity / Loss
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Spinal Cord Injury and Obesity
• Spinal cord injury specialist says 60 percent of his patients are obese
• The Role of Exercise & Diet After SCI
  
• The Skinny on Dieting
• Tips to Stamp Out Sugar . . . Part 1
• Weight Gain
• Weight Management following SCI - SCI InfoSheet #8
• What is a Serving Size?
  

Osteoporosis

• Complications
• Osteoporosis and Spinal Cord Injury
• Osteoporosis and Spinal Cord Injury
• Osteoporosis
• Spinal Cord 101: Possible complications
• What is Osteoporosis?

Pain Management

• Aching Shoulders?
• Acupuncture and Physical Disability
• Am I Ready For A Van?
• Chronic pain after spinal cord injury: What characteristics make some pains more disturbing than others?
  
• From Science to Service--Paralized Veterans of America
• Here's to Your Health: Bowel Management (Part Three)
• Incomplete SCIs: The Early Days
• Incomplete SCIs: Down The Road
• Manual therapy & pain
• PAIN an invisible disability
• Posture
• Pregabalin Effective for Neuropathic Pain After Spinal Cord Injury
  
• Prevalence of shoulder pain in adult- versus childhood-onset wheelchair users: A pilot study
• Relief sought for pain resulting from spinal cord injury
• SCI Pain (SCI Info Zone)
• Targeting Pain - Communication is Key
• The Relationship of Shoulder Pain Intensity to Quality of Life, Physical Activity, and Community Participation in Persons With Paraplegia
  
• Upper Extremety Pain

Peer Mentoring

• Apparelyzed - Spinal Cord Injury Peer Support
• Mother, daughter duo beat disability
• Ms. Wheelchair Maryland Promotes Self-Defense
  
• Peer to Peer Training
• Quad sailor Andew Hartley's heroic life in a book 
  
• Some questions to consider when inquiring about a rehabilitation center (printer-friendly version)
• Staying Open to Life-by Vicki McKenna, BA
• Teacher's reach extends beyond classroom
  
• The Peer Mentor Program for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury or Disorder
  

Pressure Sores Prevention

• All About FES- Functional Electrical Stimulation
• Healthy Living: Pressure Sore Stage Update
• How to Care: Pressure Sores
• New weapon in battle on bed sores
  
• Pressure Sores
• Prevention of Pressure Sores through Skin Care: InfoSheet #13
• Quality Living After SCI: Alternative Therapies
• Reconstruction Surgery for Pressure Sores
• Sit on It: Recommending the correct wheelchair cushion is key to maintaining the health of patients
  
• Skin Care After Spinal Cord Injury
• Skin: It's Too Much Pressure!
• Smoking
• Spinal Cord 101: Possible complications
• Spinal cord injury patients often succumb to bed sores
• What Is A Pressure Sore?
  

Research Updates

• Bedsores and Other Chronic Wounds
• Building the Case: Health Promotion for Vocational Rehabilitation Consumers
• Clinical trial-Non-Drowsy Medication for Muscle Spasticity Following Spinal Cord Injury
• CROWD: Center for Research on Women with Disabilities
• Electrical Medicine Gives Brain and Spinal Cord Injured Patients New Freedom ***(available in streaming audio)
  
• ETF-funded projects. (Paralyzed Veterans of America Spinal Cord Injury Education and Training Foundation)
• FDA Approves Diaphragm-Pacing Device
• For Some With Partial Spinal Cord Injury, Two Different Therapies Show Positive Results
• Hands Free Computer Mouse - Electrical Engineers Create Voice-controlled Mouse
  
• Intrathecal baclofen withdrawal syndrome- a life-threatening complication of baclofen pump: A case report
• Locomotor Training Restores Walking Function In Child With Spinal Cord Injury
• Longer Life For Paraplegic Patients With Superman Bicycle
• New report shows locomotor training restores walking function in child with spinal cord injury
  
• Olfactory Tissue Transplantation For Spinal Cord Injury
  
• One of First Patients to Be Implanted with Cyberkinetics' Andara(TM) OFS(TM) System for Spinal Cord Injury to Meet with Members of Congress
• Published Study Shows Oxycyte Successfully Reduces Oxygen Shortages in a Spinal Cord Injury Model
• Spinal Cord Injury Reduced With Cells Transplanted From Adult Mice Brain Cells
• Spine injury breakthrough
  
• Stem Cells from Skin Cells
• Stem cells made from eggs, not embryos
• Study holds new promise for patients recovering from spinal injuries
• Varied therapies for spinal cord injury
• Various SCI therapies available
  

Sexuality and Reproductive Issues

• A Woman’s Journey Into Parenthood
• Advanced Medical Institute Inc. Offers Men with Spinal Cord Injuries a New Lease on Their Sex Lives
• Aging and Sexuality
• CROWD: Reproductive Health Information
• Male fertility after SCI: achieving pregnancy
• Motherhood, pregnancy, and spinal cord injury
• Pregnancy Mothering & Spinal Cord Injury
• Sexual Function for Men with Spinal Cord Injury
• Sexuality after SCI
• Sexuality after Spinal Cord Injury: Answers to Your Questions
• Sexuality and Reproductive Health Following Spinal Cord Injury
• Sexuality and spinal cord injured women
• Spinal Cord Injury Introduction
• Spinal cord injury no bar to parenthood
  

Special Interest

• 3 movies delve into living with paralysis
• All About the Ablegaitor
• Accessible Gardening for Therapeutic Horticulture
• ADAPT Announces 10 Best and Worst States for Community Services
  
• Deluxe Resistive Pedal Exerciser
• Disability Etiquette- Informative publication of the United Spinal Association (PDF file)
• Exercise Cycles and Ergometers
  
• Health and Wellness Survey: Living with SCI
• National Council on Disability to Hear Presentations From Regional Leaders on Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
  
• Physical Fitness and Health: (I Can Do It, You Can Do It)- New program ensuring access to health care, and access to physical fitness and wellness opportunities for persons with disabilities
• Quadriplegic athlete learns to scuba dive
• Quadriplegic takes video games to next level
• Spint Tips- guide to selecting wheelchairs
• The Uppertone
• The Ups and Downs of Van Lifts
• Turning The Corner
• USA Tech Guide: Wheelchair Reviews by Wheelchair Users
• Used Wheelchairs
• Wheelchair Maintenance Tips
• Wheelchairs, Static Electricity & Electric Shocks
  

Travel

• ABLE to Travel: Making Travel Easier For People with Spinal Disabilities
• Access-Able- Travel Source
  
• Bright Lights - Big Cities
• Disabled Woman Set for Solo Voyage
• Emerging Horizons-Accessible Travel Resources and: New Guidebook Filled with Wheelchair-Accessible Vacation Ideas
• Group promotes outdoor adventures for the disabled
• Kayaking Resources-Common Ground Outdoor Adventures
• NCPAD: Accessible Parks by State
• Trips and Tips from Able to Travel
• 'Underwater ... We are all equal' - Diving; Caribbean island is premier spot for those with disabilities
• Wired on Wheels -Website allows consumers to rate restaurants on accessibility
  
  
  

  
  

Last Modified: October 3, 2008