• spinal cord injuries •

[ Silence ] >> Good evening and welcome to the spinal cord injury forum. My name is Jeanne Hoffman, I'm one of the psychologists here at the University of Washington and the...
[ Silence ] >> Hello, and welcome to the Spinal Cord Injury forum. I'm Stephen Burns, medical co-director of the Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System. The forums, the...
[ Silence ] >> Hello and welcome to the Spinal Cord Injury Forum. I'm Stephen Burns, medical co-director of the Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System. The forums, the...
[ Silence ] >> Hello and welcome to the Spinal Cord Injury Forum. My name Jeanne Hoffman and I'm a rehabilitation psychologist and co-director of the Northwest Regional Spinal...
With the spinal cord injury patient, it is pressure. The spinal cord injury patient lacks sensory, or the ability to feel touch, and they also lack motor, or movement. So, they’re unable to relieve...
The ideas that appear to get in the way for women, or some of the repeated themes that Iíve heard over the years, are a lot of self imageóìHow can I take care of others?îóìHow can I be loved?î And,...
I think it’s important that psychotherapy be available. Some people enjoy the opportunity of a non-judgmental other party to hear what’s going on in one’s life and deepest concerns. Other people find...
So surgery that’s done after a spinal cord injury is generally done for two primary reasons. One is if there is, in the judgment of a surgeon treating an individual with a spinal cord injury, that...
That it is still possible, and a lot of people after spinal cord injuries say that they have a wonderful sex life. They do say that it’s different than before, but the vast majority say it’s...
It is not always essential to do surgery immediately or urgently after a spinal cord injury. The timing of surgery, after a spinal cord injury, varies a lot from surgeon to surgeon, and from...