Head & Spinal Cord Injuries
The complicated spinal cord controls several essential biological processes, including movement, sensing, breathing, and swallowing. Injuries can result from traumatic events like violence, sports-related incidents, or medical or surgical procedures. Spinal degeneration, tumors, cysts, vascular diseases, infections, inflammation, and autoimmune illnesses are among the non-traumatic causes of spinal cord injuries.
Spinal cord damage has a wide range of side effects, such as respiratory difficulties, muscle loss, immobility, and a risk of developing pressure ulcers. As you can expect, a person who is injured goes through emotional ups and downs, has fewer coping mechanisms, and has lower self-esteem.
The outcomes of a spinal cord injury vary significantly depending on where the injury occurred.
Managing Spinal Cord Changes
Damage to the brain or spinal cord may have far-reaching effects. It might be difficult to deal with a loss of function or go through rigorous rehabilitation. It’s acceptable to experience worry and apprehension about the future. Your friends, family, and partners could experience challenges as they deal with emotional and practical obstacles, interruptions in family life, and role changes.
ABIs and spinal cord injuries can have a significant influence on a person’s social networks, relationships, leisure time, and job. It could be necessary for you and your immediate family to adjust to a new way of life and relationships. Yet, providing care for someone who has suffered serious brain or spinal cord damage can reunite everyone and help them establish priorities.
The objectives of treatment for individuals with spinal cord injuries include:
- Be as independent as you can be when performing daily tasks.
- Be able to successfully operate tools for self-feeding, grooming, washing, and clothing the upper body.
- Be able to bathe and use a toilet safely using a tub bench and a sliding board transfer.
- maneuver a manual wheelchair with ease or utilize a motorized wheelchair without incident.
Stay At Home Care is committed to making sure that your loved one, who has suffered brain or nerve damage in an accident or disease, has the chance to live life to the fullest and is in the best possible condition. Our intention is to inform and show them how to close the gap between their limits and their desire to live independently. We also provide respite care to provide family caregivers a chance to take personal time while remaining confident that their loved one is receiving excellent care in their absence.
