The Spinal Cord Injury Kit offers a basic introduction to the effects of spinal cord injury. The kit consists of 11 fact sheets dealing with different aspects of Spinal Cord Injury. ParaQuad Tas. has undertaken an extensive literature search to gather the information included in the kit. It was developed to inform people who are interested in advancing their knowledge about the impact on the daily life of a person who has acquired a spinal cord injury. The fact sheets are offered as an information service and are not intended to cover all treatments or research in the field.

Click on the link above to access the Fact Sheets.

If you wish to seek more specific information then ParaQuad Tas. recommends that you seek professional advice from experts in the field of spinal cord injury.

ParaQuad Tas. believes it is essential for people with spinal cord injury to work with their health professionals to develop a program that meets their needs.

If you require more information than presented in this Kit, ParaQuad Tas. is able to search the ParaQuad library for more in-depth articles which are available at no cost to people who have a spinal cord injury, their families or students.

The fact sheets are in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format. They can be accessed from the menu below. To download pdf files, right-click on the file link and choose "save target as... ", Mac users control-click and choose "save link as... ".

Contents of the Fact Sheets are as follows: