The influence of pain on community reintegration after spinal cord injury.

Background: Community reintegration is an important goal for people living with a spinal cord injury (SCI), and pain is suspected to limit reintegration due to its limitations in daily functioning, mood, and sleep.

Objectives: To determine the influence of pain on community reintegration in manual wheelchair users with SCI.

Methods: The Reintegration to Normal Living Index was used to determine community reintegration, while the DN4 and the Wheelchair User's Shoulder Pain Index were used to determine the presence of neuropathic and shoulder pain respectively.

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.

Pain medication misuse in the South African spinal cord injury context.

Background: Pain after spinal cord injury (SCI) is debilitating and has been reported to be difficult to treat, despite pharmacological interventions. Pain medication misuse (PMM) and associated individual factors among people with spinal cord injury (PWSCI) are scarce.

Aim: To determine PMM and the associated factors in PWSCI.

Development of a pain self-management intervention framework for people with spinal cord injury.

Background:  Pain is the most common reason for medical visits to primary health care practitioners. Pain self-management interventions are encouraged and there is no known self-management intervention framework available that clinicians and people with spinal cord injury (PWSCI) can use to guide treatment selection.

Aim:  This study aimed to develop a pain self-management intervention framework for PWSCI.

The prevalence and profile of spinal cord injury in public healthcare rehabilitation units in Gauteng, South Africa.

Study Design: Retrospective medical record review.

Objective: To determine the prevalence and describe the profile of person with SCI (PWSCI) admitted in the public healthcare sector in Gauteng, South Africa.

Setting: Specialized public healthcare rehabilitation units in Gauteng, South Africa.