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Pressure sores
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A pressure sore is any redness or break in the skin caused by too much pressure on your skin for too long a period of time. The pressure prevents blood from getting to your skin so the skin dies...
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Smoking and SCI |
For SCI survivors who smoke there's even more bad news and more ill health effects than those cited for the general population. Specifically, there is an increased incidence of skin sores, a decreased ability to heal following skin surgeries, and a greater likelihood of atelectasis (collapsed lung)
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Bladder care and management
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The body's urinary system has three major functions. It makes urine in the kidneys; stores urine in the bladder; and removes urine from the body through the urethra...
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The Consortium Steering Committee established a guideline development panel to make recommendations on how best to prevent and treat autonomic dysreflexia because of its life-threatening nature. Click the link to the left to download the brochure. The brochure is in PDF format, if you have any trouble viewing it, download the latest version of Adobe Acrobat |
