Spinal Injury Rehabilitation: Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

 

Breaking the neck and the spinal vertebrae is a big problem that must be dealt with tremendous care. To note, traumatic spinal cord injury has a high level of recovery and survival; but it is necessary to every single solution or rehabilitation to the problem. With the aid of rehabilitation, any further complication of the trauma will be prevented, giving the chance for the suffer to integrate back to his personal functions within the community.

 

There are 6 disciplines or methods of spinal cord injury rehabilitation that are widely used in recovering the physical functions of the person:

 

*Physical Therapy. The spinal cord injury rehabilitation focuses on the lower mobility of the body. At the onset of the trauma, the lower portions of the body will be greatly affected which hinder the basic mobility and functioning of the person. Physical therapists aim to develop the lower extremities of the body using physical movements and exercises.

 

There are various spinal cord injury rehabilitation centers that are working in United States helping SCI sufferers to gain their vitality and ability to move again. Walking With Anthony is working closely with Project Walk to provide SCI sufferers a great avenue to regain life.

 

*Occupational Therapy.

On the other hand, occupational therapists that are working in the spinal cord injury rehabilitation centers to help SCI sufferers regain the upper portions of the body. For instance, the therapy will focus on how regain functions of the arm. The upper parts of the body are very important in the basic and daily activities of life survival.

 

*Rehabilitation Nurses. Spinal cord injury rehabilitation nurses are working to aid therapists within the center. It is necessary to aid the person in the basic functions of the body, which are hindered by the non-mobility. With the aid of the nurses in the rehabilitation centers, actions of the physical recovery can be easily guided.

 

*Psychologists. Most rehabilitation centers aim to empower the SCI sufferers. It is necessary to empower and encourage the sufferer to continue the process of physical recovery. With the aid of the empowerment, a person will be able to see the situation in a new light giving him or her the strength to pursue the recovery actions that are currently conducted by the therapists.

 

*Pathologists. In the same manner, if the spinal cord injury is massive, the speech or the communication skills of the person will adversely affected. With the aid of the speech pathologist, the sufferer will be able to communicate effectively, which is very important in empowering and keeping the person in constant connection with the community.

 

*Case Managers. Moreover, the community or the audience within the circumferential place of the person helps to regain the vitality after the spinal cord injury trauma. The way the parents, or the family reacts to the situation that the sufferer is in develop strength in the mind of the person. Nurses and the social workers working closely in the rehabilitation centers are trained to keep the positive outlook about the condition and not to push pity on the sufferers condition in the spinal cord injury rehabilitation center.  

 

 

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