Title The physical, personal, and social impact of spinal cord injury from the loss of identity to achieving a life worth living / Jenny Lieberman

Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022

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Description 1 online resource Series SpringerBriefs in public health SpringerBriefs in public health. Contents 1 Background -- 2 Interventions -- 3 Subjective Experience -- 4 The Future -- Index Summary This compact book uniquely examines individual lived experience with spinal cord injury (SCI). It provides education and a clearer understanding of the many facets of a SCI -- medical, physical, psychological, cognitive, personal, and social -- in a single compact volume, so that readers learn the effect a SCI can have on a person. The contents also include resources for more specific exploration of information. SCI is a direct public health concern due to not only the cause of the injury itself, most often of violent origin, but also how the individuals perceive themselves after the injury and their participation in society, as well as how society welcomes them back. This compact book has four distinct chapters, each one addressing a different component of SCI with a set of resources to guide the individual with SCI, their family and their friends in the process. It first explores the physical as a means to provide an understanding of what body changes occur. From there, it goes on to examine what is the subjective meaning and lived experience of disability for persons with SCI. The brief ends with an examination of what organizations and programs exist to promote independence and a sense of community for persons with SCI. The Physical, Personal, and Social Impact of Spinal Cord Injury: From the Loss of Identity to Achieving a Life Worth Living is a book with broad appeal. It is written in such a way that it serves as a useful and accessible resource for people who work with persons with SCI, students and instructors with an interest in the subject, as well as persons with SCI themselves and their families. Jenny Lieberman, PhD, OTR/L, ATP is a senior clinical specialist of wheelchair seating and positioning in the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at The Mount Sinai Hospital Center in New York, NY, USA. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at New York University in New York, NY, USA Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 10, 2022) Subject Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries. Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients Spinal Cord Injuries Spinal Cord Injuries -- etiology Spinal Cord Injuries -- psychology Independent Living Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries Spinal cord -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients Form Electronic book ISBN 9783031186523 3031186524

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