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Listing: Organ Transplant Resources
This resource provides a listing of organ transplant foundations that help people navigate through recovering with a new organ or limb.
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Acute Flaccid Myelitis AFM
AFM is a rare and serious disease that affects the spinal cord; the part of the nervous system that carries messages from the brain to the body, and causes the muscles and reflexes in the body to weaken. AFM is a polio-like neurologic disease.
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Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center MSKTC
Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC), is a national center that helps facilitate the knowledge translation process to make research meaningful to those with Spinal Cord Injury SCI - Traumatic Brain Injury TBI and Burn Injury.
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Facing Disability
FacingDisability.com is designed to help the parents, families and friends of people who are facing disability with SCI navigate through social issues, sexuality, and bowel function.
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Phantom Limb Sensation
After an amputation, it is common to experience feelings as if they occurred in the limb that is missing-phantom limb sensation. This information sheet offers some education on phantom limb sensation.
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Spasticity
Spasticity is a term used to describe abnormal involuntary tightening of muscles that either occurs spontaneously or when the body is stimulated in
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Spasticity Treatment with Botulinum Toxins
???????Chemodenervation is a treatment for spasticity that involves injections into the muscle. This treatment is used when spasticity is severe, in specific locations, or is interfering with specific movements.
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Spasticity Treatment with a Baclofen Pump
Baclofen is a medicine used to treat spasticity (involuntary muscle tightness).
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Understanding Neurogenic Bladder
This page provides information on neurogenic bladder disorder.
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Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation- Paralysis Resource Guide
The Christopher Reeve foundation and paralysis Resource Guide is available for free to download for persons with Spinal Cord Injury.
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