Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

Spinal cord injury produces a unique multiplicity of problems which must be clearly understood by the considerable numbers of health care and rehabilitation professionals involved in their lifetime management. This book assumes an educational approach to spinal cord injury management in which the individual becomes an active participant in goal setting problem solving and in assuming self responsibility. Rehabilitation is discussed in terms of client empowerment client-professional partnerships and examines the client in the context of his unique socio-cultural environment.