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This study focuses on the impact a spinal cord injury may have on achieving physical and emotional intimacy, and potential to maximize sexual ability and quality of life. Spinal cord injury is a traumatic, life-altering event that is usually associated with loss of motor and sensory function, as well as sexual impairment. At the time of injury, the individual is faced with devastating loss and an abundance of new information in a setting of extreme stress and challenge. In the acute rehabilitation setting, there is often a considerable void in providing education and resources regarding sexual concerns and needs.

About 12 years ago Peter Anziano , then in his 30s, took a spill while driving his motorcycle down a North Carolina road. He fell off his bike, into a water channel off the shoulder, hitting a rock about eight feet down. Anziano tried to stand, but he couldn't move. He had an immediate inkling of what had happened. But only in the hospital did he learn he'd suffered a spinal cord injury SCI at his ninth thoracic vertebra , permanently impairing him from the waist down.

Sexuality is an important part of life, and it is necessary for clinicians to have a specific format in which to address sexual issues with their patients. A systematic approach to working with patients with spinal cord injury SCI to improve their sexual functioning and response is presented. Nonjudgmental communication about sexual concerns is followed by a detailed pre- and postinjury medical, psychosocial, and sexual history.

Although spinal cord injury SCI often causes sexual dysfunction , many people with SCI are able to have satisfying sex lives. Physical limitations acquired from SCI affect sexual function and sexuality in broader areas, which in turn has important effects on quality of life. Damage to the spinal cord impairs its ability to transmit messages between the brain and parts of the body below the level of the lesion. This results in lost or reduced sensation and muscle motion , and affects orgasm , erection , ejaculation , and vaginal lubrication.