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Spinal cord injury rehabilitation
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After a spinal cord injury, you'll need spinal cord injury rehabilitation to optimize recovery and perhaps adapt to a new way of life. Mayo Clinic's comprehensive spinal cord injury rehabilitation team works with you and your family to: Meet your ongoing needs Provide emotional support Improve your physical, mental and emotional functioning Provide spinal cord injury-specific education and resources Help you successfully re-enter your community. Mayo Clinic's spinal cord injury rehabilitation team treats people with all causes of traumatic or nontrauma spinal cord injuries, including spinal cord tumors, spinal cord or vertebral infections, transverse myelitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, multiple sclerosis, myelopathies, spinal cord infarctions and aneurysms. The Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program at Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minnesota offers state-of-the-art technology and many specialty services, including: Spasticity management Upper extremity functional restoration Wheelchair and Seating Clinic Locomotor training Diaphragm pacing system Assistive technology Functional electrical stimulation Sexuality and fertility management Neurogenic bladder and bowel management Community re-entry and recreation therapy Patient and family support and peer mentoring Comprehensive patient and family education
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Explore Mayo Clinic studies of tests and procedures to help prevent, detect, treat or manage conditions. By Mayo Clinic Staff Spinal cord injury rehabilitation care at Mayo Clinic Request an Appointment at Mayo Clinic Doctors & Departments April 20, 2019 Print Share on: FacebookTwitter Show references Spinal cord injury information page. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Spinal-Cord-Injury-Information-Page. Accessed Aug. 16, 2017. Spinal trauma. Merck Manual Professional Version. http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/injuries_poisoning/spinal_trauma/spinal_trauma.html?qt=spinal trauma&alt=sh. Accessed Aug. 16, 2017. Provider profile. CARF International. http://www.carf.org/providerProfile.aspx?cid=8020. Accessed Aug. 16, 2017. Riggin EA. Allscripts EPSi. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Feb. 22, 2017.
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