Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: What Recovery Looks Like Beyond the Hospital

Spinal cord injury rehabilitation in an outpatient setting is where much of the long-term work happens, and it looks different from the hospital phase in pace, goals, and intensity. Learn what an outpatient program includes, how often therapy takes place, which technologies are used, and what happens when formal therapy ends.

Polly Swingle authors handout on “Exercising Post-Spinal Cord Injury” for ADVANCE for Physical Therapy and Rehab Medicine

For persons who have sustained a spinal cord injury, a growing body of research suggests that exercise may be — quite literally — the best medicine. Consequently, for spinal cord patients, caregivers, physical therapists and doctors, understanding the full benefits of exercise, and understanding how to design, deploy and maximize the value of a rehabilitative […]