What can families do to help patients cope with a spinal cord injury? - Lester Butt, PhD

I think patience and tolerance are very important; respecting also the person’s privacy. When people need a break from family and need to self-reflect, I think that’s important. I think rehabilitation can be very intense and very time consuming, especially when compressed hospital stays are certainly here. So the idea of not keeping people busy all the time, and allowing people to understand the connotative meaning of the injury to them, is very important.