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Spinal Cord Injury and Sexuality

Created by: Marc Messner & Samantha Morris
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Society’s notion that disabled people are child-like, in need.
Type of disability that is categorized as occurring later in life.
Abbreviation for Range-Of-Motion exercises used for SCI.
(3 words, no spaces) Associated with physical well-being, adequate professional life, satisfaction with a relationship, social life, bladder management, age, marital status, level of spinal cord lesion, cultural life.
Actor Christopher Reeve played this Marvel Comic book hero who suffered a spinal cord injury after falling off of his horse.
Acronym for Permission, Limited Information, Specific Suggestions, and Intensive Therapy model. This is a standard treatment framework for education.
What other body organ consists of gray and white matter like the spinal cord?
Exercise that can allow people to find erogenous zones on their bodies.
(3 words, no spaces.) This is the body system the spinal cord is part of.
Fact or Myth: “Sex is always spontaneous and works perfectly all of the time”. Reality: resting, planning a routine, and allowing for blunders help make sex more fun.
One of the ways in which persons with spinal cord injury need to develop.
Common diagnosis following spinal cord injury; symptoms of low energy, negativity, and social withdrawal.
Fact or Myth: “Couples affected by chronic medical conditions, [like spinal cord injury], have the right to receive information and education about sexuality, health care that addresses sexuality, and opportunities for sexual intimacy."
(2 words, no space). This type of therapy can help change distorted thinking about being disabled due to spinal cord injury.
There are sex toys available for most disabilities. True or False?
Often felt by people with spinal cord injuries due to loss of non-disabled body; this can lead to a state of asexuality.
Society’s assumption of sexuality of disabled people
Type of support needed to combat societal negativity about people with spinal cord injuries.
May be required for people with SCI but that is okay; can include mental preparation, coordination, and arrangements with caregivers.
Can be affected in both men and women after a spinal cord injury. If this is a concern to the person with a spinal cord injury, it is best to consult urologists and fertility specialists if this is a concern.
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Surgical device implantation to treat erectile dysfunction (usually a rod or a pump).
Physical trauma or damage to the body caused by external force.
Abbreviation for spinal cord injury; a spinal cord injury “results in temporary or permanent changes in the spinal cord’s normal motor, sensory, or autonomic function."
This is determined socially by pressure for people with penises to get and keep, orgasm through ejaculation, and potency.
Therapists need to help people do this to societal, historical, or family messages that can be harmful to sexual health.
(2 words, no spaces.) Ie inability to get or keep an erection firm enough to have sexual intercourse. It's sometimes referred to as impotence, this term is not used as often.
(Play on words). Sexual device manual for persons with disabilities.
(2 words, no spaces) Long, thin, tubular structure made up of nervous tissue, which extends from the medulla oblongata in the brainstem to the lumbar region of the vertebral column.
Inability to feel or voluntary move the lower parts of the body.
Based on caregivers’ notions about sexuality and disability.
This may be required for people suffering with spinal cord injury as there are limited sex education classes for couples where one or both partners are disabled.
May include "kissing, intimate touching, masturbation of self, masturbation of partner, oral sex, and intercourse"
Various definitions include how they feel (tension vs. relaxation), where they are felt, how achieved (clitoral vs. penetration), through mental fantasy. They can be singular or multiple, felt localized or throughout the entire body.
Abbreviation for erectile dysfunction
A complex integration of biological, cultural, social, relational, and psychological factors; it is a critical aspect of human life; can be central motivating factor in life after spinal cord injury.
All genital sensation stops after a spinal cord injury. True or False?