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Introduction
If someone you love has recently had a spinal cord injury (SCI), you obviously want to find out as much as you can about what the future holds for them.

You've probably already been told by a healthcare professional that the effects of an SCI depend on how high up the spinal cord the injury occurred and how extensive the damage is. However, your expectations for your relative’s future will depend on your own level of knowledge – about general medical matters and about spinal injuries in particular. Some people fear that their loved one will become permanently and totally paralysed, while others may believe that the injured person will make a full recovery – the reality is likely to be something in between.
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Index

1. The likely outcome
2. Rehabilitation
3. Your role
Follow the links above to find out a little more about what the future is likely to hold.

The more you learn about SCI, the more realistic your expectations will become, and the easier it will be to provide support to your loved one and to deal with your own feelings of loss and fear. This website aims to provide as much information as possible to help you to do that.
This section accesed via the links in the index box, discuss what the future is likely to hold in terms of the final outcome of the final injury, the process of rehabilitation and how you can play a part.

There are also many other sections of this website that contain valuable information.

The information included in the ‘What is SCI?’ section of the site provides background information about the spinal cord, then discusses the different causes of SCI, the effects it has on the body, the associated complications, and the medical management options that may be used.

Damage to the spinal cord has the potential to affect all of the important body systems, for example, those involving the bladder, bowel and lungs. The ‘Medical’ section of the site focuses on how specific body systems are affected by SCI, addressing each system in turn.

Additional sections such as ‘Living with SCI’ also include relevant information. The ‘Meeting place’ provides the opportunity to read about people’s experiences and to get in touch with other relatives of spinally injured people.


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