Educational materials for patients and families
The Spinal Cord Medicine Program at UofL Health - Frazier Rehab Institute has developed a Patient & Family Handbook that is designed to provide you with information, resources and tools to better understand spinal cord injury. All materials are presented in a format designed for you to read and/or download onto your personal computer. You may print any and all materials for your personal use only. All materials are copyrighted and may not be altered in any manner.
To supplement the Patient & Family Handbook, our spinal cord medicine team also encourages you to review the lectures provided below:
- Adapting the Home
- Assistive Technology
- Bladder Management
- Bowel Management
- Discharge Planning & Community Resources
- Medical Concerns After Spinal Cord Injury
- Neuro Anatomy
- Nutrition
- Pulmonary Care
- Range of Motion
- Recreational Therapy
- Wheelchairs and Seating
Research opportunities
- ClinicalTrials.gov is a resource provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Resources
- American Physical Therapy Association
- American Spinal Injury Association
- Center for Accessible Living
- Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability & Rehab Research
- Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
- Facing Disability
- Kentucky Assistive Technology Network
- Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center
- National Institutes of Health
- National Spinal Cord Medicine Association
- Neural Control of Movement Society
- Paralyzed Veterans of America
- Spinal Cord Injuries Model Systems Program
- Spinal Cord Medicine Information Network
- United Spinal Association
