links to SCI sites
Bowel Management after SCI
Craig Hospital
Online information is available on a number of topics related to SCI.
Bowel Problems
Colostomies: A Radical Approach to Bowel Mangement
The main website is http://www.craighospital.org
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
There is a wealth of information about a number of topics related to SCI. Check out the Fact Sheets from A to Z. These are downloadable in PDF Format
here
The main website is http://www.christopherreeve.org
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
The NSCIA has an A-Z Index of Resource Topics. Each topic has links to a variety of sites with information.
See the section on Bowel Management.
http://spinalcord.org/resources/
The main website is http://www.spinalcord.org
Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System
Online Information at this site maintained by the Rehabilitation Medicine department of the University of Washington. Pamphlets are available that may be read online or downloaded in PDF format.
Part 1 pamphlet about Bowel Management is Taking Care of Your Bowels - The Basics
Part 2 pamphlet about Bowel Management is Taking Care of Your Bowels - Ensuring Success
The main website is http://sci.washington.edu
Paralyzed Veterans of America
PVA.org has excellent manuals that are downloadable in PDF format.
There is a manual for clinicians: Neurogenic Bowel Management in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury
There is a manual for consumers: Neurogenic Bowel: What You Should Know
This manual is also available in Spanish: Intestino neurogénico: Lo que usted debe saber
The main site is
http://www.pva.org/
Regional Spinal Cord Center of the Delaware Valley
The Spinal Cord Injury Patient - Family Teaching Manual is a very informative resource about the issues involved with spinal cord injury.
This Manual has over 20 chapters that are downloable in PDF format.
Chapter 4 deals with Bowel Issues http://www.spinalcordcenter.org/manual/pdf-files/scibook-chp04.pdf
The Table of Contents for the Manual is available here.
The main site is
http://www.spinalcordcenter.org
SCI-Info-Pages
An informative resource about a spinal cord injury or other disabling injuries or diseases of the spine.
http://www.sci-info-pages.com/bowel.html
The main site is
http://www.sci-info-pages.com
Spinal Cord Injury Information Network at UAB
This site is maintained by the UAB Model Spinal Cord Injury Center and offers educational and research information relevant to persons with SCI, their families, and others of interest.
A video on Bowel Management may be dowloaded or streamed from
here.
A Bowel Management InfoSheet may be seen
here.
The main site is
http://www.spinalcord.uab.edu/
Spinal Cord Injury Manual for Patients and Families
Informative manual from the PoinTIS Web site provided by the Louis Calder Memorial Library of the University of Miami School of Medicine.
See the section on Bowel Issues at
http://calder.med.miami.edu/pointis/bowel.html
The main site is
http://calder.med.miami.edu