Spinal Cord Injury
At MSH Healthcare, we support clients with a range of disabilities and specialise in helping paraplegic and tetraplegic clients with spinal cord and other injuries.
At MSH Healthcare, we support clients with a range of disabilities and specialise in helping paraplegic and tetraplegic clients with spinal cord and other injuries.
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Spinal Injury Care Agency
At MSH Healthcare, we support clients with a range of disabilities and specialise in helping paraplegic and tetraplegic clients with spinal cord and other injuries. We’re confident that we can meet your care, lifestyle and independence needs. We also provide comprehensive care, support, and rehabilitation services for people with acquired or traumatic brain injuries.
We pride ourselves on being able to offer a continuous care service and our team of highly skilled, compassionate healthcare professionals can offer private care at home on a long-term basis as required. Building meaningful relationships with both our service users and their family and friends is very important, and we work to provide assistance and education in addition to empathetic care.
What is Spinal Injury Care?
Spinal Injury Care is designed for those who have suffered an injury to their spine or spinal cord. Spinal injury care often involves one or more experienced nurses and specially-trained carers, but the level of care differs from person to person, based on their individual needs.
In a lot of cases, spinal injury care involves a full time, live-in carer to assist with everyday activities such as moving around, dressing, cooking and cleaning. This enables your loved one to remain in their own home with their own independence.
How to care for someone with a spinal cord injury
If a loved one has suffered a spinal cord injury, care goes much further than just their physical needs. The mental and emotional effects of a serious injury can be severe and last for a long time. Our Spinal Injury carers are specially trained in the field of spinal cord injury, and understand how such injury can impact the rest of someone’s life as well as those around them.
The different types of Spinal Injuries
Spinal cord injuries are typically split into two types; incomplete spinal injuries and complete spinal injuries.
Incomplete spinal cord injuries are more common and are a result of the spinal cord being compressed or damaged in a way that limits the brain’s ability to send messages to the parts of the body that are located below the injury.
The effects of an incomplete spinal cord injury vary from person to person depending on the severity of the injury. Some injuries may result in only a slight reduction in motor function, but some can result in the loss of sensation and function of limbs.
Complete spinal cord injuries are viewed as more serious, as they usually have more severe effects. A complete spinal cord injury can lead to paraplegia or tetraplegia, depending on where the injury is located.
Spinal injuries and their consequences can also vary depending on the location of the injury, with doctors usually grouping injuries into four categories based on the sections of the spine.
Cervical Injury
An injury to the part of the spine located in the neck and head.
Thoracic Injury
An injury to the part of the spine located in the chest and mid-back.
Lumbar Injury
An injury to the part of the spine located in the lower back.
Sacral Injury
An injury to the part of the spine located in the pelvic area.
Spinal Injury Care Explained...
Spinal Injury Care is designed for those who have suffered an injury to their spine or spinal cord. Spinal injury care often involves one or more experienced nurses and specially-trained carers, but the level of care differs from person to person, based on their individual needs.
