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Self-help devices | Life on a wheelchair after getting a cervical spine injury

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The first rehabilitation I underwent in a hospital after the accident was an exercise for eating by myself. For the first three months, I spend days in a bed, so my muscles weakened, and I couldn’t even carry a spoon to my mouth. But I remember as keep exercising myself in the same motion every day, I built up my muscles unconsciously, and I gradually liked eating that I hadn’t liked. One more tool I would like to mention is Magic hand that is not on pictures. This tool is also useful. I may need to thin...

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Inserting catheter difficult | Life on a wheelchair after getting a cervical spine injury

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What should I do when a catheter is hard to insert? I would like to tell precautionary measures that my doctor told me and strategies my friends and I are adopting. Precautionary measures (from my urologist’s talk). Not to leave a long interval between urinations. You cannot insert a catheter after the body develops an excessive reflex action. Not to withdraw urine many times. Do not drink water too much at once. Strategy 1 (In my case). Change the position of your hip. Change the position of your legs.

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Transfer | Life on a wheelchair after getting a cervical spine injury

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To get rid of a space between a wheelchair and a bed. A tool which can solve this problem is a transfer board (a sliding board). It would be troublesome tasks for the spine injured to put a transfer board under their hips every time they transfer. But this board can be set up in 24-hour, and easily attach to a bed as inserting its screws to threaded holes of a fed fence. With this board, you can transfer smoothly. I think there must be a lot of manufacturers who make this sort of transfer board. In this ...

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What is self catheterization? | Life on a wheelchair after getting a cervical spine injury

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What is self catheterization? What does the self-urethral catheterization do? The urethral catheterization is the method of inserting a tube (hereinafter catheter ) through the urethra and drawing off your urine through a catheter. The page which tells about self-urethral catheterization is the best accessed page in the piroweb site. I wonder this is because you got some troubles on passing urine and want to have information to solve them. Can you pass water using a catheter by yourself?

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Car equipment | Life on a wheelchair after getting a cervical spine injury

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Even if you lose physical ability as a consequence of spine injury, you can go anywhere by a equipped car which has necessary tools such as a revolver and a manual operator. The question I was wondering after I got injury was how wheelchair users ride into a car and drive. However, I could understand as seeing a transfer board because it can get rid of a space between a wheelchair and a seat. I have two kinds of transfer boards which are made of wood and tick plastic. Gas pedal, a brake, a horn, an indic...

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about | Life on a wheelchair after getting a cervical spine injury

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Greetings to visitors from the Web manager. Thank you very much for your access. To begin with, I would like to talk about my life after I got injury. If you are in a hurry, just glance over, but if you have enough time, please take time to read. Until January 14th 1999, I have a perfectly healthy boy. But the following day, I lost it at once. When I was skiing, I fell down and was injured my neck in the accident. I still remember the moment clearly. A moment carelessness is a lifelong curse. Please ...

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What is cervical cord injury? | Life on a wheelchair after getting a cervical spine injury

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What is the cervical cord injury? What does happen if you get the cervical cord injury? In a human body, there is the series of small bones which forms the backbone called vertebra, and the spinal cord (the central nerve) passes through its hole. In my case, I broke the 6th vertebra among 7 piece of vertebrae. The broken born was removed from vertebrae, and instead, I got a transplant from a pelvic. I got cut half my spinal cord, and it would never heal again. What is cervical cord injury? In this site, ...

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Movie | Life on a wheelchair after getting a cervical spine injury

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A picture being worthy a thousand words! These videos show transferring to a bed and a car. In my case, I change a seat as turning myself parallel. You can see it easier with a video rather than reading my explanation. Transferring to a car. This video shows how to transfer to a car. I don’t use a transfer board, but those who cannot move their body easily use the transfer board. All of a gas pedal, brakes, horn, a turn signal, hazard light and head lights are manually controlled. Move to a wheelchair.

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Wheelchair lifts・Slope | Life on a wheelchair after getting a cervical spine injury

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Wheelchair lifts and a wheelchair ramp can help to solve problems for wheelchair users in their life. A wheelchair lifts and a wheelchair ramp can help to solve problems for wheelchair users in their life. In my home, there is no space to build a slope at the entrance, therefore I set up a wheelchair lifts there. I got this tool from a friend of mine who also has a spinal injury. This is so expensive that would cost me thousands of dollars. This tool is very helpful as well. I got this slope as well....