Musculoskeletal pain may be due to injury or overuse of muscles or arthritis of joints. It is a common problem for all people as they get older, including those with SCI. However, you can adjust your activity in different ways to help reduce or prevent musculoskeletal pain. These activity modifications ...
Study design: Cross-sectional survey.
Objectives: The objective of the study was to identify the treatments that people with traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) used for their non-neuropathic pains (nonNeuPs) and how they subjectively rated the helpfulness of those treatments.
Setting: Six centers from the Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems.
Methods: Three hundred ninety ...
This is a podcast-brief from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center.
Most people experience some type of pain after spinal cord injury. For many people, the pain is caused by nerve damage or some other medical problem. For others, the pain is in the muscles, joints, or bones. No matter what ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Managing Pain After Spinal Cord Injury. In this video, SCI Model Systems Researchers share how they helped two individuals with SCI diagnose and manage their shoulder pain, which resulted from wheelchair use.
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This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Managing Pain After Spinal Cord Injury. This video discusses Shoulder Exercises for People with Spinal Cord Injury.
Up to seventy-eight percent of spinal cord injury patients using hand-propelled wheelchairs experience should pain.
PROVIDER: Mario, ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Managing Pain After Spinal Cord Injury. Barbara Lutz, R.N., research assistant, discusses Does Exercise Prevent or Reduce Pain in SCI Patients.
The study that we’re using the exercises in that is for persons ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Managing Pain After Spinal Cord Injury. Robert Irwin, M.D., Associate Professor, discusses Predicting Pain to Head it Off.
We do have some data that tendons of people with spinal cord injuries tend to ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Managing Pain After Spinal Cord Injury. Robert Irwin, M.D., Associate Professor, discusses Finding the Right Doctor.
If you have any family members with a spinal cord injury or if you yourself are dealing ...
What is the study about?
Generally, obesity is associated with greater bone mineral density (BMD). However, there are additional factors that affect the relationship between fat tissue and BMD. This study investigates the relationships between BMD, walking status, and molecules released by fat tissue in men with chronic spinal cord injury ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Exercise and Fitness After Spinal Cord Injury. Michael Boninger M.D, researcher, discusses The Benefits of Team Sports.
I think team sports and spinal cord injury bring in not only fitness, so you’re propelling ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Exercise and Fitess After Spinal Cord Injury. Lee Tempest, SCI Survivor, discusses About Hand Cycling.
A little bit about what a hand cycle is. So it’s a bike that you — it’s kind ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Exercise and Fitness After Spinal Cord Injury. Katie Smith, SCI Survivor, discusses About Wheelchair Rugby.
When I was in rehab, one of the therapists showed me the movie “Murder Ball.” They knew I ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Exercise and Fitness After Spinal Cord Injury. Katie Smith, SCI Survivor, discusses Horseback Riding with Spinal Cord Injury.
To get onto the horse, I go up onto a ramp and a platform, and ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Exercise and Fitness After Spinal Cord Injury. Katie Smith, SCI Survivor, discusses Meeting Other People with SCI Through Sports.
Getting involved in adaptive sports is really a great way to meet people and ...
This is a part of the Hot Topic podcast series from the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Exercise and Fitness After Spinal Cord Injury. Lee Tempest, SCI Survivor, discusses The Therapeutic Feeling of Fitness.
Exercise and fitness has been very therapeutic, you know. It makes me feel good mentally and ...
What is the study about?
Most individuals with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) have shoulder pain. The study investigated the effects of a 12-week home exercise program (HEP) on shoulder pain and function in people with chronic SCI that focused on the supraspinatus tendon (a tendon located on the back of ...
What is the study about?
This study aims to assess the link between body mass index (BMI) and one-year mortality among people who survived the first 90 days after spinal cord injury (SCI). The first year after SCI has a significantly higher mortality rate than the following years. To improve life ...
What is the study about?
This study was a pilot test of GoWoman, a small-group weight management intervention — delivered in the online virtual world of Second Life® — for women with mobility impairments. This was modeled after the Diabetes Prevention Program but substantially modified to meet the needs of women ...
What is the study about?
The aim of this study was to examine what role neighborhoods, race, and ethnicity play in obesity rates for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).
What did the study find?
The study found Hispanics had the highest obesity rate than other racial groups. Non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics tend ...