Here you can find information and techniques for living with a Spinal Cord Injury while maintaining or even improving your independence and diminishing your reliance on others.
Even as a wheelchair user you should be able to safely, efficiently, and independently take your dog with you as much as possible.
Autonomic Dysreflexia (AD), also known as autonomic hyperreflexia, is an emergency situation.
There are hundreds of people with paralysis showing how they do it, but there’s only a handful of cooks that really stand out.
fter a spinal cord injury, daily activities like dressing can be challenging. Certain tricks can help you do more by yourself.
Gait training is practicing walking with assistive devices, orthotic devices, braces, and other types of support as needed to achieve ambulation.
Wheelchair transfer techniques, tips and insights from Spinal Cord Injury Lifestyle Specialist Aron Baker and Shield Healthcare.
For people with SCI, aquatic exercise provides advantages over land exercise programs. Individual and group workouts can occur easily in water.
Tips on batch cooking from wheelchair user Tammy Snowden. Tammy was in a car accident 25 years ago and lost all movement and feeling in her legs.
Tips, strategies, standards, measurements, and considerations for creating a wheelchair accessible kitchen in your home.
These exercise videos are intended to promote a healthy lifestyle for people with spinal cord injury by depicting various exercises users can do in a gym.
Whether you’re a quad or a para, cooking after a spinal cord injury is going to be different and possibly frustrating.
People with spinal cord injury are more likely to have health problems related to weight gain, changes in cholesterol, and high blood sugar.
A presentation by Vickeri Barton, RD, Associate Director of Nutrition Services at Harborview Medical Center and Susie Kim.
The Association for Driver Rehabilitation Specialists has developed a series of fact sheets on disabilities and driving that can be downloaded.
Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center offers a number of factsheets containing information on various aspects of living with a spinal cord injury.