Home How-To-Guide
Welcome to the Home How‑To Guide—your practical starting point for everyday life after a spinal cord injury. Here you’ll find clear, step‑by‑step tips and checklists for things like safe transfers, skin protection and blood pressure monitoring, bathing and bladder/bowel management and coughing. Whether you, a family member or friend are newly injured or refining routines that already work, the focus is on adaptable techniques, affordable tools, and small changes that add up. Start wherever you like, tailor the ideas to your body and home, loop in family or caregivers as needed, and build confidence one task at a time.
Spinal cord injuries are complex, and each person with one is affected by it differently. WE hope that some of the information on our website will serve as a guide for navigating you and your loved one’s spinal cord injury journey once they arrive home and are participating in outpatient physical therapy.
This information will not answer all of your questions or answer how to navigate every scenario, so be sure to ask a qualified healthcare professional if you have detailed questions or need medical advice.