Open AccessTime Burden of Bladder Management in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury
Author(s) -
Kyla N. Velaer,
Blayne Welk,
David Ginsberg,
Jeremy B. Myers,
Kazuko Shem,
Christopher S. Elliott
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1945-5763
pISSN - 1082-0744
DOI - 10.46292/sci20-00007
Subject(s) - medicine , spinal cord injury , clean intermittent catheterization , gold standard (test) , bladder injury , urinary catheterization , body mass index , quality of life (healthcare) , physical therapy , surgery , catheter , urinary bladder , spinal cord , nursing , psychiatry
While clean intermittent catheterization (CIC) is the gold standard for bladder management after spinal cord injury (SCI), many individuals with SCI, for reasons not fully understood, choose alternative bladder management. We hypothesized that CIC is associated with an increased time burden in individuals with SCI.