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"How To Do a Pressure Relief" videos from the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Secondary Conditions in the Rehabilitation of Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury.

Mobility
A chapter from the Spinal Cord Injury Patient – Family Teaching Manual published by the Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Valley (RSCICDV) at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Magee Rehabilitation Hospital. Spanish

Wheelchair Positioning (PDF)
Offer rehabilitation care providers and consumer caregivers a step-by-step instructions and photo illustration on performing common activities. This and other Tipsheets are provided by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System (UAB-SCIMS).

Bed Positioning for the Immobile Patients (PDF)
Offer rehabilitation care providers and consumer caregivers a step-by-step instructions and photo illustration on performing common activities. This and other Tipsheets are provided by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System (UAB-SCIMS).

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System provides this website as an auxiliary resource for the primary care of patients with spinal cord injury.The contents of this website were developed under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant number 90SIMS0020). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this website do not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, HHS, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.