The Spinal Cord Injury Treatment Team

Hi I am Marcy from Brain and Spinal Cord that will work. Today I will be bringing you some information on the spinal cord injury treatment team. This includes the team of people you and your loved one will work with falling injury. Be sure to check the website for all relevant links and a recap of this article. When it comes to spinal cord rehabilitation you have probably notice that each and every professional that you and your loved one works with has an incredibly important yet specialized job to perform. This team approach is incredibly important to ensuring that you or your loved one gets the best and most comprehensive care.

Generally speaking the survival will work with three teams. These are the Medical teams, the Therapists team and the support team. Let us just describe the roles that each of these teams one by one. The Neuro surgeon or orthopedics finds surgeons heads up in the medical team. Here she is responsible for managing a keep care immediately found injury. As well as for coming up with a game plan regarding term rehabilitation care. Other specialist on the medical team might include a Physiatrist, a Rehabilitation nurse, a Dietician, and a psychologist. Each person has their own set of responsibilities as they pertain to survivor’s medical care. For example the Physiatrist coordinates all aspects of the survivor’s rehabilitation including supervising and working with the varieties of physical therapist is knowledgeable about spinal cord injury. The rehabilitation nurse coordinates all nursing care and it is also a person who answers the mini questions did by the survivor and his or her loved ones will have about spinal cord injury.

As a dietarian needs that the patient changes after the injury and through out rehabilitation. A dietician wills insure the survivor’s nutritional needs are met. Finally a psychologist will help the survivor and his family cope with life after injury and will help them adjust. The therapist will work with the survivor during the rehabilitation face. To return the survivor to the highest level of [Muffled] if possible. The physical therapist will help the survivor reach maximum range of motion, endurance and strength. Here she will also help the survivor do what the process of finding a wheel chair as well as learning to transfer to it, sit in it and operated. If there are speech communication problems then a speech therapist will be an important team member. A recreational therapist helps to determine the survivors function level and then introduces him or her to activities that will bring both independence and fun back to the survivor’s life. Finally a respiratory therapist will brought on board for survivors who are having difficult to breathing as a result to their spinal cord injury.
The final team is the support team. This team is made up of various specialists who will help the survivors’ navigate life post spinal cord injury. A social worker will help the survivor do with things like finances, relationships and life style changes while the case manager will act as [Muffled] on between the survivor and insurance companies. A vocational counselor will help the survivor with work options while rehabilitation engineer will design assisted aids that can be used by the survivor.

When it comes to treatment from the acute phase through rehabilitation the people on your team will determine the success of your long term outcome. This concludes our segment on spinal cord injury treatment team. Remember to check our web site for the most updated information including researchers and tips regarding brain spinal cord injuries and thanks again for watching.


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