Exploring the Experience of Living with Pain after Spinal Cord Injury: A Qualitative Study.

A spinal cord injury is a life-changing experience that results in functional limitations and an increased risk of secondary health conditions. People with spinal cord injury identify pain as the most devastating health problem following their injury that not only affects their social life but their mental well-being as well. This study is aimed at exploring the lived experience of living with pain by community-dwelling manual wheelchair users with spinal cord injuries.

Management of spinal cord injury-related pain using complementary and alternative medicine: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: This scoping review will identify complementary and alternative medicine methods used to manage spinal cord injury-related pain.

Introduction: Spinal cord injury-related pain is common, with a third of individuals experiencing severe pain. Conventional interventions are well documented, however, pain relief remains elusive for people with spinal cord injuries.

Pain and its impact on functioning and disability in manual wheelchair users with spinal cord injury: a protocol for a mixed-methods study.

Introduction: Approximately 80% of people with spinal cord injury experience clinically significant chronic pain. Pain (whether musculoskeletal or neuropathic) is consistently rated as one of the most difficult problems to manage and negatively affects the individual's physical, psychological and social functioning and increases the risk of pain medication misuse and poor mental health. The aim of this study is to therefore determine the presence of pain and its impact on functioning and disability as well as to develop a framework for self-management of pain for South African manual wheelchair users with spinal cord injury.