Overview
- Is the first-known book that examines the medical, physical, personal, and social factors around spinal cord injury
- Explores the experience of spinal cord injury as well as the physical and social barriers to success
- Provides a deep holistic understanding of the personal reaction to spinal cord injury
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- spinal cord injury (SCI) and individual lived experience
- paraplegia
- tetraplegia
- rehabilitation
- phenomenology
- wheelchair use
- disability
- disability and employment
- disability and socialization
- disability and accessibility
- disability and membership organization
- insurance reimbursement
- academic and economic opportunities
- social support
- subjective experience of spinal cord injury
- physical and social barriers to success with spinal cord injury
- psychosocial impact of spinal cord injury
- violent traumatic injuries
- subjective meaning & personal lived experience of disability
About this book
SCI is a direct public health concern due to not only the cause of the injury itself, most often of violent origin, but also how the individuals perceive themselves after the injury and their participation in society, as well as how society welcomes them back.
This compact book has four distinct chapters, each one addressing a different component of SCI with a set of resources to guide the individual with SCI, their family and their friends in the process. It first explores the physical as a means to providean understanding of what body changes occur. From there, it goes on to examine what is the subjective meaning and lived experience of disability for persons with SCI. The brief ends with an examination of what organizations and programs exist to promote independence and a sense of community for persons with SCI.
The Physical, Personal, and Social Impact of Spinal Cord Injury: From the Loss of Identity to Achieving a Life Worth Living is a book with broad appeal. It is written in such a way that it serves as a useful and accessible resource for people who work with persons with SCI, students and instructors with an interest in the subject, as well as persons with SCI themselves and their families.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jenny Lieberman, PhD, OTR/L, ATP is a senior clinical specialist of wheelchair seating and positioning in the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at The Mount Sinai Hospital Center in New York, NY, USA. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at New York University in New York, NY, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Physical, Personal, and Social Impact of Spinal Cord Injury
Book Subtitle: From the Loss of Identity to Achieving a Life Worth Living
Authors: Jenny Lieberman
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18652-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18651-6Published: 01 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18652-3Published: 31 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2192-3698
Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 105
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Health, Occupational Therapy, Phenomenology, Clinical Psychology, Medicine/Public Health, general, Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine