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BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS ABOUT SPINAL CORD INJURIES


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The publications may also be found listed alphabetically.


Personal Experience:

Book Titles Currently Listed:

  • Eleven Seconds

  • Nothing is Impossible

  • Still Me

  • Genesis: A Portrait of Spinal Cord Injury

  • Journey to Well: Learning to Live after Spinal Cord Injury

  • Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery

  • Meaning of a Disability: The Lived Experience of Paralysis

  • The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled

  • Rescuing Jeffrey: A True Story

  • Moving Violations : War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence

  • Never Give Up!: How Tragedy Taught Me That Life Is an Attitude

  • Still Lives : Narratives of Spinal Cord Injury

  • My Soul Purpose: Living, Learning & Healing

  • Finding Peace in Troubled Waters

  • Home Bound: Growing Up with a Disability in America

  • What Now: A True Story About Overcoming Incredible Challenges

  • Miracle in the Making: The Adam Taliaferro Story

  • A Slide Through Time

  • Tumbling After: Pedaling Like Crazy After Life Goes Downhill

  • Be Not Afraid: Ben Peyton's Story

  • From There to Here: Stories of Adjustment To Spinal Cord Injury

  • How I Became a Human Being: A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence

  • Letters from the Edge: A Travelogue through the Looking Glass of Paralysis

  • Roll Models: People Who Live Successfully Following Spinal Cord Injury And How They Do It

  • Just An Accident

  • The Strength Within

  • A Complete Plain-English Guide to Living with a Spinal Cord Injury: Valuable Information From a Survivor

General & Miscellaneous Topic:

Book Titles Currently Listed:

  • Paralysis Resource Guide

  • Spinal Cord Injury: A Guide for Living

  • The Spinal Cord Injury Handbook: For Patients and Their Families

  • Spinal Network: The Total Wheelchair Resource Book

  • Practical Guide to Health Promotion After Spinal Cord Injury

  • Able Lives: Women's Experience of Paralysis

  • Living With Spinal Cord Injury

  • How to Live With a Spinal Cord Injury

  • Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out

  • Endless Struggle: Spinal Cord Injury

  • Life on Wheels: For the Active Wheelchair User

  • Spinal Cord Injuries (2 publications listed with this title)

  • Spinal Cord Injury: Functional Rehabilitation

  • After and Beyond Spinal Cord Injury Journal

  • After and Beyond Spinal Cord Injury Resource Manual

  • Personal Health History: Spinal Cord Injury

  • Spinal Cord Injury Desk Reference: Guidelines for Life Care Planning and Case Management

  • Emergencies in Spinal Cord Injured Patients

  • Aging With Spinal Cord Injury

  • ABCs of Spinal Cord Injury

  • Life Care Planning for the Spinal Cord Injured: A Step-By-Step Guide

  • Living With Spinal Cord Injury: A Wellness Approach

  • 21st Century Complete Medical Guide to Spinal Cord Diseases, Injuries, and Spinal Stenosis: Authoritative Government Documents, Clinical References, and Practical Information for Patients and Physicians (CD-ROM)

  • Love Heels: Tales from Canine Companions for Independence

  • Living with Spinal Cord Injury

  • Wheeling And Dealing: Living With Spinal Cord Injury

  • Spinal Cord Injury: A Guide for Patients and Families

  • Spinal Cord Injury and the Family: A New Guide

 

Pediatric:

Book Titles Currently Listed - Publications for Children or Parents of a Disabled Child:

  • The Child With a Spinal Cord Injury

  • Reflections from a Different Journey : What Adults with Disabilities Wish All Parents Knew

  • Spinal Cord Injuries in Children

  • Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury

  • Physical Therapy for Children

  • When Your Child Is Seriously Injured

  • Lets Talk About It: Extraordinary Friends

  • Don't Call Me Special: A First Look at Disability

  • Rolling Along With Goldilocks and the Three Bears

  • Taking Charge: Teenagers Talk About Life & Physical Disabilities

  • Financial Aid for the Disabled & Their Families, 2004-2006

  • Dewey Doo-it Helps Owlie Fly Again

  • The Sibling Slam Book: What It's Really Like To Have A Brother Or Sister With Special Needs

  • Kids on Wheels

Book Titles Currently Listed - Publications for Parents with a Disability:

  • Adaptive Baby Care Equipment: Guidelines, Prototypes & Resources

  • Assistive Technology and Parenting: Continuation of Adaptive Parenting Equipment Development

  • Babycare Assistive Technology for Parents with Physical Disabilities: Relational, Systems & Cultural Perspectives

  • Parenting and Disability: Disabled Parents' Experiences of Raising Children

  • Disabled Parents: Dispelling the Myths

WHEELCHAIRS (Selection, Positioning Etc.):

Book Titles Currently Listed:

  • Choosing a Wheelchair

  • Positioning in A Wheelchair: A Guide for Professional Caregivers of the Disabled Adult

  • The Wheelchair Evaluation: A Practical Guide

  • Wheelchair Selection and Configuration

Assistive Technology & Internet:

Book Titles Currently Listed:

  • Living in the State of Stuck : How Assistive Technology Impacts the Lives of People with Disabilities

  • Computer and Web Resources for People With Disabilities: A Guide to Exploring Today's Assistive Technology

  • The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Spinal Cord Injury: A Revised and Updated Directory for the Internet Age

  • The Complete Product Guide for People with Disabilities

  • Choosing Assistive Devices: A Guide for Users & Professionals

  • Computer Resources for People With Disabilities: A Guide to Assistive Technologies, Tools, and Resources for People of All Ages

  • Assistive Technology: Matching Device and Consumer for Successful Rehabilitation

  • Assistive Technologies: Principles and Practice

  • Clinician's Guide to Assistive Technology

Travel:

Book Titles Currently Listed:

  • Access Anything: Colorado: Adventuring With Disabilities

  • Travel for the Disabled: A Handbook of Travel Resources & 500 World Wide Access Guides

  • Getting There: a Guide to Long Distance Travel for Disabled People

  • A Travel Guide for the Disabled: Western Europe

  • Air Travel Guide for Seniors and Disabled Passengers

  • Barrier-Free Travel: A Nuts & Bolts Guide for Wheelers & Slow Walkers

  • Wheelchairs On The Go: Accessible Fun in Florida

  • The Accessible Guide To Florence

  • Barrier-free Tourism for People with Disabilities in the Asian and Pacific Region

  • Wheelchair Around the World

  • Rick Steves' Easy Access Europe 2004: A Guide for Travelers with Limited Mobility

 

Sexuality & Relationships:

Book Titles Currently Listed:

  • Enabling Romance: A Guide to Love Sex and Relationships for People with Disabilities (and the People Who Care About Them)

  • Sexuality After Spinal Cord Injury: Answers to Your Questions

  • New Horizons: A Guide to Sexuality After Spinal Cord Injury

  • Sexual Options for Paraplegics and Quadriplegics

  • Sexual Adjustment: A Guide for the Spinal Cord Injured

  • Sensuous Wheeler: Sexual Adjustment for the Spinal Cord Injured

  • The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain and Illness

  • Sexuality and Disability

  • Is Fred Dead? A Manual on Sexuality for Men with Spinal Cord Injuries

Caregivers:

Book Titles Currently Listed:

  • Love, Honor & Value: A Family Caregiver Speaks Out about the Choices & Challenges of Caregiving

  • Caregivers Comfort: An Inspirational 366-Day Journal and Record Book for Caregivers

  • Coping with Caregiver Worries

  • Hard Questions Simple Answers: A Workbook To Take The Crisis Out Of Caregiving

  • I'll Take Care of You A Practical Guide for Family Caregivers

  • Preventing Caregiver Burnout

  • The Fearless Caregiver: How to Get the Best Care for Your Loved One and Still Have a Life of Your Own

  • The Educated Caregiver: Information, Strategies and Support for Those Caring for a Loved One (3 video tapes)

  • American Medical Association Guide to Home Caregiving by American Medical Association

  • A Caregiver's Survival Guide: How to Stay Healthy When Your Loved One Is Sick

  • Share The Care

Hiring Help & Personal Care Assistants:

Book Titles Currently Listed:

  • Caregivers and Personal Assistants: How to Find, Hire and Manage the People Who Help You (Or Your Loved One!)

  • Avoiding Attendants from Hell: A Practical Guide to Finding, Hiring and Keeping Personal Care Attendants

  • Enhancing Independence: A Personal Attendant Training Manual

  • Hiring and Management of Personal Care Assistants for Individuals with SCI

  • Personal Care Assistants (SCI InfoSheet)

Research & Treatment:

Book Titles Currently Listed:

  • In Search of the Lost Cord: Solving the Mystery of Spinal Cord Regeneration

  • Functional Electrical Rehabilitation: Technological Restoration After SCI

  • Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine

  • Neural Stem Cells for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair

  • The Quest for Cure: Restoring Function After Spinal Cord Injury

  • Spinal Cord Trauma: Regeneration, Neural Repair and Functional Recovery

  • Neural Grafting: Repairing the Brain and Spinal Cord, New Developments in Neuroscience

  • Neural Stem Cells for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair

  • Therapeutic Interventions for Patients With Spinal Cord Injuries

  • Rehabilitation Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information About Rehabilitation for People Recovering from Heart Surgery, Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke, Orthopedic Impairments

  • Transplantation of Neural Tissue into the Spinal Cord

  • Spinal Cord Injury: A Guide to Functional Outcomes in Physical Therapy Management

  • Physical Therapy for Children

  • Comprehensive Aquatic Therapy

  • Aquatic Exercise Therapy

  • Aquatic Rehabilitation

  • Functional Electrical Stimulation: Standing and Walking After Spinal Cord Injury

  • Spinal Cord Injury Pain: Assessment, Mechanisms, Management (Progress in Pain Research and Management, V. 23)

  • Restoring Function to the Injured Human Spinal Cord (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology)

  • Back And Neck Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information About Spinal Pain, Spinal Cord Injuries, And Related Disorders (Health Reference Series)

  • Neurosurgical Re-engineering of the Damaged Brain and Spinal Cord

  • 50 Challenging Spinal Pain Syndrome Cases

  • Alternative and Complementary Medicine for Spinal Cord Injury

  • Spinal Cord Injury: Progress, Promise, and Priorities by Institute of Medicine

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NOTE: Publications are listed for informational purposes only, and inclusion does not constitute endorsement by the Travis Roy Foundation of any publication or retailer.