Living with Spinal Cord Injury - Resilience and Better Health Outcomes
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Living with Spinal Cord Injury - Resilience and Better Health Outcomes
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As the highway for messages between the brain and body, the spinal cord is key to how we feel sensation and move our bodies. An injury to this critical pathway can be life-changing. These injuries can impact all areas of a person's life, often causing full or partial paralysis and a range of complications from chronic pain to respiratory failure.
At one point, living 40 years with a spinal cord injury was nearly unheard of, but now, more people are reaching and exceeding that milestone, making understanding ways to improve the quality of life even more important.
In this episode, Dr. James Krause, distinguished university professor and the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Health Professions at the Medical University of South Carolina shares his personal story and how it led him to commit his adult life to understanding the long-term consequences of neurologic injury on health, quality of life, employment, and longevity.
Episode Links:
MUSC Center for Rehabilitation Research in Neurological Conditions (CRRNC)
South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Association
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)