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Rehabilitation centers generally provide different types of specialists, to help maximise the full potential of someone who has experienced a spinal cord injury. The ultimate objective of a spinal cord injury rehabilitation center, is to help an individual maximise recovery, and fulfill their maximum potential to maintain the highest quality of life possible.
The areas of specialty in spinal cord injury rehabilitation are:
Rehabilitation Physicians: are nerve, muscle, and bone experts who treat injuries or illnesses that affect how you move.
A rehabilitation physician's goal is to decrease pain and enhance performance without surgery. Rehabilitation physicians take the time needed to accurately pinpoint the source of an ailment. By providing an appropriate treatment plan, rehabilitation physicians help patients stay as active as possible at any age. Their broad medical expertise allows them to treat disabling conditions throughout a person’s lifetime.
Physical Therapists: provide treatments to individuals with spinal cord injuries to develop, maintain and restore maximum movement and function throughout life. This includes providing treatment in circumstances where movement and function are threatened by aging, injury, disease or environmental factors.
Occupational Therapists: address the question, "Why does this person have difficulties in his or her daily activities, and what can we adapt to make it possible for him or her to manage better to impact his or her health and well-being?” Occupational therapists use careful analysis of physical, environmental, psychosocial, mental, political and cultural factors to identify barriers to occupation. The primary goal of a spinal cord injury occupational therapist is to enable individuals, to participate in activities which are meaningful to them, reflect their beliefs and values, and produce a sense of accomplishment or satisfaction. Occupational therapy has been described as addressing the "skills for the job of living" necessary for "living life to its fullest.
Social Workers: in spinal cord injury centers assist individuals and their families to deal with crises and trauma that affect their lives through counselling. Social workers enable people with spinal cord injuries and their families to manage the psychological and social impact of spinal cord injury. Social workers also provide advocacy, information and education. Social workers not only provide counselling services to people with spinal cord injuries and their families, but also assist people with a number of practical tasks such as income maintenance, legal and insurance matters, and environmental factors that affect people such as personal care and homelessness. Social workers are the case managers to each and every person, planning and coordinating the rehabilitation and discharge process with the person and their team, and liaising with external public and private agencies.
The following spinal cord injury rehabilitation centers in the united states have been recommended by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation.
Alabama
University of Alabama at Birmingham SCI Care System
1717 6th Avenue South, Room 19, Birmingham, AL 35233-7330
(205) 934-3334
http://main.uab.edu/...asp?durki=10712
California
Northern California Regional Spinal Cord Injury System
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
950 South Bascom Avenue, Suite 2011, San Jose, CA 95128
(408) 295-9896
http://www.tbi-sci.org
Regional Spinal Cord Care System of Southern California
Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center
7601 East Imperial Highway, HB 206, Downey, CA 90242-4155
(562) 401-7161
http://www.larei.org/sci.htm
Colorado
Rocky Mountain Model Spinal Cord Injury System
Craig Hospital
3425 South Clarkson Street, Englewood, CO 80110
(303) 789-8306
http://www.craighosp...searchInfo.html
Florida
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
1611 N.W. 12 Avenue, Miami, FL 33136
(305) 585-1339
http://www.sci.med.miami.edu
Georgia
Georgia Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System
Shepherd Center, Inc.
2020 Peachtree Road, NW, Atlanta, GA, 30309
(404) 350-7580
http://www.shepherd....tract/model.htm
Illinois
Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
215 East Superior Street, Suite 619, Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 908-3425
http://www.nwu.edu/spine
Think First Organization
26 South LaGrange Road, Suite 103, La Grange, IL 60525
(708) 588-2000
http://www.thinkfirst.org
Massachusetts
Special Projects and Demonstrations for Spinal Cord Injuries
New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center
88 East Newton Street, F-511, Boston, MA 02118
(617) 638-7358
http://www.bumc.bu.e.../DepartmentID=9
Maryland
University of Maryland Medical System
Kernan Hospital
2200 Kernan Drive, Baltimore, MD 21207
(888) 453-7626
http://umm.edu/spinecenter
Michigan
Southeastern Michigan Spinal Cord Injury System
Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan
261 Mack Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48201
(313) 745-9770
http://www.med.wayne.edu
University of Michigan Model Spinal Cord Injury Care System
University of Michigan Health System
300 North Ingalls, Room N12A09, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0491
(734) 763-0971
http://www.med.umich.edu/pmt/model_sci
Missouri
Missouri Model Spinal Cord Injury System
University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
One Hospital Drive, DC046.00, Columbia, MO 65212
(573) 884-7972
http://www.muhealth.org/~momscis
New Jersey
Northern New Jersey Model Spinal Cord Injury System
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation
1199 Pleasant Valley Way
West Orange, NJ 07052
(973) 243-6871
http://www.umdnj.edu/pmrweb/sci.htm
New York
Mount Sinai Model Spinal Cord Injury System
One Gustave Levy Place, Box 1240, New York, NY 10029-6574
(212) 659-9369
http://www.mssm.edu/.../home-page.html
Ohio
Northeast Ohio Regional Spinal Cord Injury System
MetroHealth Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University
2500 MetroHealth Drive, Cleveland, OH 44109-1998
(216) 778-8781
http://www.metroheal...linical/NORSCIS
Pennsylvania
Regional Spinal Cord Injury System of Delaware Valley
Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Medical College
132 S. 10th Street, 375 Main Bldg., Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 955-6579
http://jeffline.tju.edu/spinalcord
Shriners Hospital for Children-Philadelphia
3551 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140
(215) 430-4000
http://www.shriners.com/hospitals
Rhode Island
Shake-A-Leg Non-Profit Charitable Organization
P.O. Box 1264, Newport, RI 02840
(401) 849-8893
http://www.shakealeg.org
Texas
Model Spinal Cord Injury System-Texas
TIRR Memorial Hermann - The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research
1333 Moursund, Houston, TX 77030
(713) 797-5000
http://www.tirrmemorialhermann.org
Pressing On: A Spinal Cord Injury Research and Recovery Center
12001 Network Suite 314, San Antonio, TX 78249
(210) 877-2228
http://www.pressingontx.com
Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth Regional Spinal Cord Injury System
Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Box 980677, Richmond, VA 23298
(804) 828-0861
http://www.views.vcu.edu/html/pmt/sci
Washington
Norwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System
University of Washington School of Medicine
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Box 356490, Seattle, WA 98195-6490
(206) 685-3999
http://weber.u.washi....edu/~rehab/sci
Wisconsin
Model Construct for Community Integration in Spinal Cord Injury
Medical College of Wisconsin Spinal Cord Injury Center
9200 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226
(414) 259-2126
http://www.mcw.edu
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