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1. Living with a Spinal Cord Injury
2. Saving Your Hide
3. The Fine Art of Digestion
4. How to Tame a Neurogenic Bladder
5. The Many Facets of Love
6. Heart of Circulation
7. Keys to Independent Living
8. Mobility assistance dogs: companions on the way to freedom
9. Complications: Better Safe Than Sorry!
10. Accepting and Letting Go
11. Getting Fresh Air
12. A Few Practical Instructions
13. Finding Your Place
14. Incomplete Spinal Cord Injuries
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Living with a Spinal Cord Injury
1. Getting the Situation under Control
2. One Step at a Time
3. The Road to Recovery
Saving Your Hide
1. A Sad Story about a Sore Rump
2. What role does the skin play?
3. What are the Consequences of a Spinal Cord Injury?
4. Sources of Aggression Against the Skin
5. Factors that aggravate pressure wounds
6. Classification and Treatment of Pressure Wounds
7. Rules of Prevention
8. Products for the Treatment and Prevention of Sores
The Fine Art of Digestion
1. When Elimination goes, Everything Goes!
2. Spinal Shock
3. After the Spinal Shock
4. Fibre Is Your Ally
5. Supporting Elimination
How to Tame a Neurogenic Bladder
1. A Well Drained Pelvic Basin
2. A Properly Irrigated Tree
3. New Management Method
4. From one Urination to the Next
5. After the Accident
6. Practical Consequences
7. Diagnosis: Urodynamic Evaluation
8. Solutions
9. Glitches in Every Day Life
10. Creating Balance
11. Regular Check-ups
The Many Facets of Love
1. A Beautiful Love Story
2. Impact on the Sexual Response
3. Multiple Types of Pleasure
4. Procreation and Contraception
5. Consultation
6. Other Testimonies
Heart of Circulation
1. Breath of Fresh Air
2. Keep On Moving
3. Oedema
4. Thrombosis and embolism
5. Breathing: The Source of Life
Keys to Independent Living
What’s Next?
1. Mobility
2. Home
3. Daily Activities
4. Environment Control and Safety
5. Domestic Support
6. Transportation
7. Community Resources
8. Community Life
9. Communications
10. Financial Support
11. The Doors Are Open
Mobility assistance dogs: companions on the way to freedom
1. What are MADs?
2. What can MADs do?
3. Laws and regulations on the use of MADs
4. How to obtain a MAD
5. Mobility assistance dog cost reimbursement program
6. Living with a mobility assistance dog
7. Mobility assistance helps reduce disability
Complications: Better Safe Than Sorry!
1. When Things Get Complicated
2. Autonomic Hyperreflexia
3. Orthostatic Hypotension (Blood Pressure Drop)
4. Hyperthermia/Hypothermia
5. Osteoporosis
6. Spasticity
7. Contractures
8. Lung Conditions
9. Chronic Pain
Accepting and Letting Go
1. Once Upon a Time…
2. Emotions and the Body
3. Grieving Process
4. Embodying Grief
Getting Fresh Air
1. It’s time to have fun!
2. Bitten by the Travel Bug
3. Sport For All Tastes
A Few Practical Instructions
1. Bouncing back towards an active life
2. During the rehab process, two heads are better than one
3. Maintaining confidence in yourself, in us, and in the future
Finding Your Place
1. First Reactions
2. Everyday Life
3. Parental Roles
4. A Place in Society
Incomplete Spinal Cord Injuries
1. Will I Recover?
2. Working with the Medical Team
3. Functional Consequences
4. I Don’t Feel So Lucky!
5. Social Dimension
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