This book is designed primarily to help recently qualified staff and professionals to develop an insight into the implications of spinal cord injury and the role that they play in enabling the patient and their family to tolerate the complex and time consuming process of care and rehabilitation. It will also provide support to those newly injured and their families, helping them to place their own reactions in context. Explaining the prognosis, rehabilitation, returning to work and sexual functioning are discussed in detail. Suitable for all professionals including doctors and those working in rehabilitation such as nurses, physiotherapists and psychologists.