Spinal Cord Rehabilitation in Minnesota

Patient Education

Mayo Clinic provides patients with extensive education materials designed to complement the information received from your rehabilitation team and to help educate friends and family about a patient's circumstances. These materials are focused on physical needs — such as changes in body function, skin care, breathing techniques — as well as emotional transitions and coping skills, such as hiring and maintaining personal care assistants, traveling, and family transitions.

Following is a listing of the spinal cord injury information patients and families receive while on the rehabilitation unit:

• Alcohol and Drug Use after Spinal Cord Injury
• Autonomic Hyperreflexia
• Bladder Management
• Body Temperature Control
• Bowel Management
• Coping Skills
• Deep Venous Thrombosis
• Effects of Spinal Cord Injury
• Equipment Care
• Establishing a Relationship with a Personal Care Assistant
• Fitness after Spinal Cord Injury
• Going Back to Work
• Individual and Family Emotional Adjustment to Spinal Cord Injury
• Leisure and Recreation
• Maintaining an Effective Relationship with a Personal Care Assistant
• Managing and Directing Your Daily Care
• Medications
• Muscle Tone
• Nutrition after Spinal Cord Injury
• Respiratory Care
• Sexuality and Fertility
• Skeletal Changes
• Skin Care
• Stress
• The Family and Spinal Cord Injury
• Travel Information
• Understanding the Needs of the Family Caregiver Take Control: A Multimedia Guide to Spinal Cord Injury