Best Practice
The following documents are considered by the MASCIP committee to be of relevance to current practice in spinal cord injury care. The documents are not intended to be prescriptive or exhaustive but to be used as a resource to inform those undertaking spinal cord injury care.
This document was produced by the UK Intrathecal Baclofen Forum.
Multidisciplinary Association for Spinal Cord Injury Professions (MASCIP) guideline for weight management in individuals with spinal cord injury.
Completing the Wheelchair Check screening tool assists in pinpointing potential sitting or rolling-related issues and solutions in both electric and manual wheelchairs.
Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: A Wasted Resource without Appropriate Mobility, Posture, Skin Integrity and Life Role Enhancing Provision
Statement of Caution
The Patient is for Turning: The Role and Use of Mechanical Turning Beds for Patients with Spinal Cord Injury, Associated Major Trauma and Complex Care Scenarios
Long-Term Neurological Conditions: Management at the Interface between Neurology, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care
The National Service Framework for Longterm Conditions
Making it Happen: Case Finding and Risk Stratification (NHS England)
Spasticity in Adults: Management using Botulinum Toxin
Rehabilitation and Communication with Trauma Patients
The Management of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
SCI Pathway and Transformation Recommendations for Adults with SCI who have Psychological and Mental Health Needs
Standards for Specialist Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injury
Physiotherapy Use of Cough Assist Devices or Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation
Home Mechanical Ventilation: A Canadian Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline
Flow Chart for Tracheostomy Tube Use from Acute Initial Stage to Intermediate Stage
Respiratory Management Following Spinal Cord Injury: What You Should Know
The CanPain SCI Clinical Practice Guidelines for Rehabilitation Management of Neuropathic Pain after Spinal Cord: Recommendations for Treatment
Clinical Commissioning Policy: Phrenic Nerve Pacing Following Spinal Cord Injury
New South Wales State Spinal Cord Injury Service: Managing Pain for Adults with Spinal Cord Injury
Estimating the UK Population of People Living with SCI
Preventing Pressure Injuries in the Spinal Cord Injury Population
Spinal Cord Injury First Episode of Rehabilitation Therapy Outcomes
Nerve Transfer to Partially restore Upper Limb Function in Tetraplegia
Rehabilitation after Traumatic Injury
Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression Diagnosis and Management of Adults at Risk of and with Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression
Pressure Ulcers: Prevention and Management of Pressure Ulcers
National Major Trauma Rehabilitation Group Guidelines
Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines for the Diagnosis, Assessment and Physiotherapy Management of Contracted (Frozen) Shoulder
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