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Ask Noah About: Spinal Cord Injuries and Disorders
Prepared by the New York Online Access of Health, this site contains FAQs, causes, diagnoses, a glossary and statistics about spinal cord injuries. As well, it contains relevant information about complications that can be associated with such disorders, including urological issues, depression, skin and relationship issues. There are also links to sites that describe clinical trials and organizations.
Digital Librarian: A Librarian’s Choice of the Best of the Web: Spinal Cord Injury Sources
This Digital Librarian site provides a selective, annotated listing of Web sites and documents.
Model Spinal Cord Injury Care Systems Doorway
The Doorway describes the Model Spinal Cord Injury Care Systems’ research and demonstration projects delivering medical, vocational, and other rehabilitation services to SCI individuals. There are links to individual System Web sites where available. Many of these sites offer newsletters and patient education materials as well as describe system health care, research, educational, and support activities.
National Spinal Cord Injury Association (NSCIA)
Includes excellent factsheets, links to other Web sites, summaries of news events involving people with disabilities, and electronic bulletin boards and chat forums. NSCIA’s program, In Touch With Kids, is a good source for information on pediatric SCI.
Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine -- Seattle
This site contains information on the University’s research and rehabilitation programs, full-text patient pamphlets, reports of the University’s monthly speaker series on living with SCI, and articles from their quarterly newsletter (with cumulative index) including abstracts of articles on SCI-related topics derived from MEDLINE.
Orthospine Medical Topics
“An educational site developed for the understanding of spinal problems.” This page provides some introductory information on low back pain including diagrams. A link is provided to some frequently asked questions and answers about low back pain. Moderately in depth information is provided and this is a good starting point for learning more about low back pain.
Rehab Team Site, POINTIS (Point-of-Care, Team-Based Information System), Louis Calder Memorial Library, University of Miami School of Medicine
This web site offers manuals for patients, families and for health care providers with information on spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries. It also includes links to other spinal cord and traumatic brain injury sites. The handbooks are of exceptional quality.
Spinal Cord Industry, Stroke and Paralysis Guide to Support Organizations (Support Site)
Neurological Services through Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School prepared this site. It provides a series of links to support organizations for a variety of spinal cord injuries. The links are to American-based organizations.
Spinal Cord Injury Information Network (University of Alabama – Birmingham)
The Spinal Cord Injury Information Network has an extensive listing of Web sites and resources including books, graphics, health care facilities, organizations, pamphlets, periodicals, and videos on a wide variety of topics relevant to SCI individuals. Entries are annotated and links are provided where available. The resource is searchable by keyword or by topic. The National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center and the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center in Secondary Complications in SCI are also available at this site.
Spinal Cord Injury Resources
This site consists of a listing of SCI Web resources including articles, factsheets, bulletin boards, health care facilities, organizations, research, newsletters and magazines, and e-mail list groups. Also available is a diagram of the anatomy of the spine and spinal cord and the areas of the body associated with each section of the cord.
Spinal Diseases
Provided by MEDLINEplus Health Information, this site provides links to materials related to diagnosis, research, pictures/diagrams, diagnosis/symptoms, as well as links to specific spinal diseases.
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