Follow Up and Lifelong Care of Spinal Cord Injury - NSIC Study Day
It was a privilege to have been invited to – and to sponsor - the latest Study Day at the National Spinal Injuries Centre earlier this week. ‘Follow Up and Lifelong Care of Spinal Cord Injury’ covered a lot of ground, but at an impressive and accessible pace.
We help people who have suffered spinal cord injuries achieve the financial security that enables and preserves independence where their spinal cord injury arises through negligence. It stands to reason that engaging with, listening to, and learning from medical professionals who use their expertise caring for people with spinal cord injuries all day and every day is always going to be an inspiring and positive experience. This week’s Study Day was no exception, and we are grateful for being given the chance to attend.
We often help clients who are living and breathing the issues that were covered by an impressive line-up of speakers. The speakers collective dedication to, and their experience and expertise in, the lifelong care of spinal cord inured patients was genuinely a privilege to see and to hear.
On days like this, where we can meet with and learn first-hand from medical specialists about issues that our clients encounter and endure, the extra insight and the depth of knowledge we can acquire is always invaluable. Having a deeper understanding and appreciation of issues that our clients encounter or may well encounter after spinal cord injury is mandatory for us. Whilst the courses are understandably directed at medical staff, there is no substitute for being able to absorb what professionals such as those talking this week were disseminating.
Though this wasn’t a MASCIP event, the ethos of a multi-disciplinary approach to driving better practice in serving the same community of patients really chimes with us: what different groups or individual specialists, all using their different skills and talents but to help the same person, can learn from interacting in a forum designed to share experience and expertise is powerful – and uplifting.
In a full day of talks delivered to an in person and online audience there was a stream of impactful presentations that covered long term follow up on the work of the outpatients department, the management of cauda equina syndrome; long term bladder management after spinal cord injury and long term bowel care after spinal cord injury. There were engaging tours through longer term physiotherapy management and long term OT management; and an interactive common medical issues session focused on hypothetical ‘years later’ presentations at spinal centres. The closing session on autonomic dysreflexia was excellent.
Thank you to all who allowed us to be part of the day. It is really appreciated.
Please contact Jon Rees on any aspect of his work as a specialist Spinal Cord Injuries Solicitor on jonrees@brethertons.co.uk, or call on 01788 557617 today. You can also follow us on twitter @neurolawyer
