Tetraplegia

Tetraplegia: Total or partial impairment of the sensory and motor functions of the body including all four limbs. The person looses control over bowel and bladder functions, posture and even in few cases respiratory functioning.
Spinal cord injury (SCI), from impact to rehabilitation is a family affair. The family can be the single most important resource in dealing with a devastating trauma, and as such, plays a central and crucial role in the social and emotional stabilization of someone with SCI.
The sudden impact of SCI places overwhelming stress on the family, which has had no time to prepare. It can throw off the balance of even the strongest families. At the time of injury, the family enters into an interdependent partnership with the injured person and becomes an integral and contributing part of the clinical team. The family provides support and empathy.. The family passes through stages to re-establish its balance after trauma. During the acute stage, the family is ove...