Quick Answer: What Is the Best Diet After a Spinal Cord Injury?
No diet can repair the spinal cord or restore movement and feeling. Rehabilitation, medical care and, where needed, surgery remain the main treatment. Nutrition still plays a big part in recovery and daily health. The best approach is a balanced, nutrient-rich diet with enough protein for healing and muscle, fibre and fluids for bowel and bladder health, calcium and vitamin D for bones, and sensible portions to prevent weight gain. Energy needs change after the early weeks, so a dietitian experienced in spinal cord injury (SCI) should set your plan.
What Is a Spinal Cord Injury?
A spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord, usually from trauma such as a road accident, fall, sports injury or violence. It can also result from disease, infection, tumours or loss of blood supply. The injury interrupts the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
Effects depend on the level and completeness of the injury:
- Tetraplegia (quadriplegia): injury in the neck, affecting the arms, trunk, legs and often breathing
- Paraplegia: injury lower down, affecting the legs and sometimes the trunk
- Complete injury: no movement or feeling below the level of injury
- Incomplete injury: some movement or feeling remains
Beyond movement and feeling, SCI can affect the bowel, bladder, blood pressure, temperature control, skin, bones, breathing, sexual function and mood, and many of these are linked to nutrition.
How Does Diet Affect Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury?
Diet cannot regrow nerve fibres, but nutrition shapes day-to-day health in many ways:
- Healing: protein, vitamin C, zinc and enough calories support surgical wounds and skin
- Muscle: muscle above the injury level still needs protein to stay strong, which matters for transfers, wheelchair use and rehabilitation
- Weight: energy needs usually fall because of muscle loss and less movement, so weight gain is common, while malnutrition and weight loss are common soon after injury
- Bowel health: SCI often causes a slow, unpredictable bowel (neurogenic bowel), and fibre and fluids are central to a bowel routine
- Bladder health: fluids affect urine infections and bladder stones
- Skin: poor nutrition raises the risk of pressure injuries and slows their healing
- Bones: bone loss below the level of injury is common, so calcium, vitamin D and protein matter
- Heart and metabolic health: SCI raises the risk of diabetes, high cholesterol and heart disease
- Energy, mood and sleep: regular, balanced meals help
Be cautious about claims that a food, juice or supplement can “repair the spinal cord”, “reconnect nerves” or “help you walk again”.
Nutrition in the First Weeks After Injury
Right after injury, the body is under heavy stress, and needs and care differ from later life.
- Early nutrition: hospitals aim to start feeding early, often within a few days, through a feeding tube or by mouth, as the person’s condition allows.
- Energy and protein needs: these can be high in the early weeks because of trauma, surgery and inflammation, and muscle loss can be rapid.
- Swallowing: people with neck injuries, a breathing tube, a tracheostomy or ventilator use may have trouble swallowing, so a speech and language therapist should check before eating normally.
- Gut slowdown: the gut can become sluggish after injury (ileus), causing bloating, nausea and constipation, so the team adjusts feeding.
- Stress ulcers: doctors often give stomach-protecting medicine.
- Blood sugar: stress and steroids can raise blood sugar, so teams monitor and treat it.
- Fluids and salt: fluids and electrolytes are carefully managed, often through a drip at first.
Follow your hospital team’s feeding plan, and do not change tube feeds, drinks or medicines without their advice.
How Do Nutritional Needs Change in Long-Term SCI?
After the early weeks, many people’s needs shift:
- Lower calorie needs: muscle below the injury level wastes, and activity falls, so many people burn less energy than before injury. Needs are often lower in tetraplegia than in paraplegia, and vary by person.
- More body fat: weight gain and a higher proportion of body fat are common, even at a normal weight, and standard BMI charts can under-estimate it.
- Protein still matters: protein supports muscle, skin and healing, and needs rise if you have a pressure injury or infection.
- Fibre, fluids and bone nutrients: these become daily priorities.
- Individual targets: your dietitian can estimate your needs from your injury level, activity, weight and health conditions.
Do not use general diet charts or crash diets, because they can cause muscle loss, pressure injuries and nutrient gaps.
Eating Patterns That Support SCI Health
Mediterranean diet
Based on vegetables, fruit, whole grains, beans, nuts, fish and olive oil, with little red meat and few sweets. It suits the higher risk of heart disease and diabetes in SCI, and is high in fibre.
Indian-style balanced plate
Fill half the plate with vegetables, a quarter with dal or lean protein, and a quarter with whole grains such as roti or brown rice. Add curd and cook with limited oil, and adjust portions for your energy needs.
High-fibre, regular-routine eating
Eating at regular times supports a predictable bowel routine, since meals can trigger the gut’s natural movement reflex.
Best Foods After a Spinal Cord Injury
1. Protein-rich foods
Eggs, fish, chicken, dal, curd, paneer, milk and tofu support muscle, skin and immunity. Include protein at every meal.
2. High-fibre vegetables and fruit
Spinach, methi, carrots, pumpkin, gourds, broccoli, guava, papaya, pears, apples and berries provide fibre, vitamins and antioxidants. Prunes, papaya and stewed fruit help many people with constipation.
3. Whole grains
Oats, brown rice, millets, barley and whole wheat provide fibre and steady energy.
4. Beans, lentils and pulses
Dal, chickpeas and rajma provide plant protein and fibre. Add them gradually and drink enough fluids, since sudden large amounts can cause gas and bloating.
5. Vitamin C foods
Amla, guava, oranges, lemon, papaya and bell peppers support collagen and skin.
6. Calcium-rich foods
Milk, curd, paneer, ragi, sesame seeds, calcium-set tofu, small fish with soft bones and fortified foods support bone health.
7. Fatty fish and omega-3 fats
Salmon, sardines and mackerel eaten about twice a week support the heart and may help with inflammation. Vegetarians can use walnuts, flaxseed and chia seeds.
8. Nuts and seeds
A small handful of unsalted almonds, walnuts, flaxseed or pumpkin seeds gives healthy fats, magnesium, zinc and vitamin E.
9. Healthy oils
Use olive, mustard or other unsaturated oils in small amounts in place of butter and vanaspati.
10. Fluids
Water, buttermilk, soups, coconut water and diluted fruit drinks help with bowel and bladder health. Your team will advise how much is right.
Key Nutrients for SCI
- Protein: supports muscle, skin and healing. Sources: eggs, fish, dal, paneer, tofu, chicken, milk.
- Fibre: helps bowel regularity and heart health. Sources: vegetables, fruit, oats, whole grains, pulses.
- Fluids: support bowel and bladder health. Sources: water, soups, buttermilk.
- Calcium and vitamin D: protect bones. Sources: milk, curd, ragi, sesame, fortified foods, sunlight.
- Vitamin C: supports collagen and skin. Sources: amla, guava, oranges, lemon.
- Zinc: supports wound healing and immunity. Sources: pumpkin seeds, chickpeas, cashews, dairy.
- Vitamin B12 and folate: support nerves and blood, and B12 can be low in some people. Sources: dairy, eggs, fish, leafy greens, lentils.
- Omega-3 fats: support heart health. Sources: fish, walnuts, flaxseed.
- Iron: helps prevent anaemia, which is common after injury and with pressure sores. Sources: leafy greens, lentils, beetroot, lean meat.
- Magnesium and potassium: support muscles and blood pressure. Sources: nuts, seeds, whole grains, bananas, leafy greens.
Bowel Care: Fibre, Fluids and Routine
Most people with SCI have some degree of neurogenic bowel, meaning the bowel does not respond to normal signals. It can cause constipation, bowel accidents, bloating and, if neglected, a dangerous impaction.
- Follow your bowel programme. It may include timed toileting, suppositories, mini-enemas, manual evacuation or other methods set by your SCI team.
- Eat enough fibre, often about 25 to 30 g a day for many adults, from vegetables, fruit, whole grains and pulses. Increase gradually, since too much fibre without enough fluid can make constipation and bloating worse. Ask your team for your target, because some people do better with moderate fibre.
- Drink enough fluids, as your team advises.
- Eat at regular times, and use mealtimes as part of your routine, since eating can stimulate the bowel.
- Try helpful foods, such as prunes, papaya, stewed apple or pear, flaxseed and oats.
- Notice trigger foods for gas, loose stools or bloating, such as very spicy, fatty or fizzy foods, and adjust.
- Keep active as far as you can.
- Use laxatives only as advised, and avoid frequent harsh laxatives.
- Never ignore constipation. A full bowel can trigger autonomic dysreflexia (see below).
Bladder Care, Fluids and Urinary Infections
Bladder function is often affected, and people may use intermittent catheters, an indwelling catheter or other methods.
- Drink enough fluids, as your team advises. Many people are advised to drink around 1.5 to 2 litres a day unless a medical reason requires less. Fluids dilute urine, reduce irritation and lower the risk of infection and stones.
- Space fluids through the day, in line with your catheter schedule, and do not drink large amounts at once.
- Limit bladder irritants, such as caffeine, alcohol, fizzy drinks and artificial sweeteners, if they cause urgency or leaks.
- Watch for signs of urine infection, such as cloudy or smelly urine, fever, new leaking, more spasms, sweating or feeling unwell. In SCI, infections may not cause pain, so look out for other signs.
- Cranberry products: evidence that they prevent urine infections in SCI is limited and mixed. Ask your doctor, and note that they can interact with warfarin.
- Kidney and bladder stones are more common after SCI, partly because of bone loss, dehydration and catheters. Drink enough fluids, and ask your doctor before taking calcium or vitamin C supplements in large amounts.
- Do not cut back on fluids to avoid accidents, because dehydration raises the risk of infections, stones and constipation.
Preventing and Healing Pressure Injuries
Pressure injuries (pressure sores) are a serious risk after SCI, because of reduced feeling, movement and blood flow. Poor nutrition makes them more likely and slows healing.
- Eat enough protein and calories. People with a pressure injury often need more protein, sometimes about 1.25 to 1.5 g per kg of body weight a day, but your dietitian or doctor will set your target. If you have kidney disease, ask first.
- Include vitamin C, zinc and iron-rich foods every day.
- Stay hydrated.
- Keep a healthy weight. Being underweight leaves less padding over bones, and being overweight adds pressure and makes repositioning and transfers harder.
- Control blood sugar if you have diabetes.
- Check your skin every day with a mirror or help from a carer, especially over the sitting bones, hips, heels and tailbone.
- Change position regularly, use a suitable cushion and mattress, and follow your team’s skin care advice.
- Avoid smoking, which reduces blood flow and delays healing.
- Ask for a dietitian review if you have an open wound.
- For more on wound-healing nutrition, see our guides to diet tips for skin burns and diet tips for diabetic foot ulcers.
Weight Management
Weight gain is common after SCI because muscle is lost, activity falls and energy needs drop. Extra weight raises the risk of diabetes, heart disease, pressure injuries and shoulder strain, and makes transfers harder.
- Ask your dietitian to estimate your calorie needs, which are often lower than before injury.
- Fill half your plate with vegetables, and choose high-fibre, high-protein foods that keep you full.
- Control portions of rice, roti, sweets, fried snacks and creamy foods.
- Avoid sugary drinks and packaged juices.
- Eat regular meals, and avoid grazing.
- Be active as far as you can, with arm exercise, wheelchair sports, swimming or other adapted activity guided by your therapist.
- Lose weight gradually, and avoid crash diets, which cause muscle and bone loss.
- Use a suitable method to track weight, such as wheelchair scales, sit-on scales or measuring waist size, as your team advises.
- If you are losing weight without trying, or you have low appetite, tell your doctor.
Bone Health
Bone loss below the level of injury begins early and can be rapid, and fractures can happen with minor injury.
- Get enough calcium from milk, curd, paneer, ragi, sesame, calcium-set tofu, small fish with soft bones and fortified foods.
- Get enough vitamin D from sunlight, fatty fish, eggs and fortified foods, and ask your doctor to test your level, since low vitamin D is common.
- Eat enough protein.
- Limit salt, alcohol and excess caffeine, which affect bones.
- Do not smoke.
- Ask your doctor about bone scans, standing or weight-bearing programmes and bone-protecting medicines.
- Take care during transfers and exercise, and follow your therapist’s advice.
- See our guides to diet tips for osteoporosis and diet tips for osteopenia.
Blood Pressure, Dizziness and Autonomic Problems
Low blood pressure
People with injuries at the neck or upper back often have low resting blood pressure, and it can drop further when sitting up (orthostatic hypotension), causing dizziness or fainting.
- Drink enough fluids through the day.
- Eat smaller, more frequent meals, because large meals can cause blood pressure to fall afterward.
- Limit alcohol.
- Change position slowly, and use compression stockings or an abdominal binder if advised.
- Ask your doctor before adding extra salt. Some people are advised to, but it depends on your heart and kidneys, so do not do it on your own.
Autonomic dysreflexia (an emergency)
In injuries at around the sixth thoracic level (T6) or above, a painful or irritating stimulus below the injury, such as a full bladder, constipation, a pressure sore or tight clothing, can trigger a sudden, dangerous rise in blood pressure.
Warning signs include a sudden pounding headache, flushed skin and sweating above the injury, goosebumps, a blocked nose, a slow heartbeat and anxiety.
- Sit upright, lower the legs if possible and loosen tight clothing and binders.
- Check for a blocked catheter or full bladder, and for constipation, but only follow the steps your team has taught you.
- Seek emergency help if it does not settle quickly.
- Good bowel, bladder and skin care, including enough fibre and fluids, helps prevent it.
Temperature control
Some people struggle to sweat or shiver below the injury. Drink fluids in hot weather, and avoid overheating or getting too cold.
Swallowing Safely
Swallowing problems are common after neck injuries, after breathing tubes or a tracheostomy, and with ventilator use. They can cause choking, food entering the airway and chest infections.
Warning signs include coughing or choking when eating or drinking, a wet or gurgly voice, food held in the mouth, long mealtimes, weight loss and repeated chest infections.
- Ask your doctor for a swallowing assessment from a speech and language therapist.
- Sit upright for meals, and stay upright for 30 minutes afterwards.
- Take small bites and sips, and eat slowly.
- Choose soft, moist foods, and use thickened fluids if your therapist advises.
- Do not eat when very tired or drowsy.
- Keep up mouth care and dental hygiene.
In an emergency, such as choking with no breathing, coughing or speaking, call emergency services immediately.
Eating Tips for Patients and Caregivers
- Use adapted cutlery, built-up handles, plate guards, non-slip mats and cups with straws or lids if hand function is reduced. An occupational therapist can advise.
- Position the person upright with good support, and set the table within easy reach.
- Prepare meals in batches and freeze portions, to save energy.
- Choose easy finger foods, such as sandwiches, cut fruit, boiled eggs and paneer cubes, if cutlery is difficult.
- Keep a food, fluid and bowel diary, to see what works.
- Encourage independence in shopping, cooking and eating where possible, using online shopping and delivery if helpful.
- Look after mood. Depression and anxiety are common after SCI, can affect appetite and are treatable, so tell your doctor.
- Caregivers should look after their own health, and ask for help from family, friends and local support services.
Foods and Habits to Limit
- Sugary foods and drinks: sweets, soft drinks and packaged juices add calories and raise blood sugar.
- Fried and ultra-processed foods: they offer calories but few nutrients and can worsen weight gain.
- Saturated fat and trans fats: vanaspati, excess ghee and butter, fatty meat and fried street food raise cholesterol, which SCI already makes more likely.
- Refined grains: white bread, maida products and bakery items are low in fibre and can worsen constipation.
- Excess salt: it can raise blood pressure in some people, though people with low blood pressure may be advised otherwise.
- Alcohol: it dehydrates, affects balance and mood, irritates the bladder, interacts with medicines such as baclofen and painkillers, and slows healing.
- Large amounts of caffeine: it can irritate the bladder and disturb sleep.
- Very gas-producing foods in large amounts, if they cause bloating or bowel problems.
- Smoking and tobacco: they reduce blood flow, delay healing, raise infection and heart risk, and worsen bone loss.
- Crash diets and fasting: they cause muscle loss and pressure injury risk.
- High-dose supplements without advice: some can cause stones, bleeding or other harm.
Medicines and Diet
Never stop or change a medicine without your doctor’s advice.
- Baclofen, tizanidine and other spasticity medicines: they can cause drowsiness, dizziness and constipation. Avoid alcohol, and increase fibre and fluids. Never stop baclofen suddenly, since withdrawal can be dangerous.
- Bladder medicines (such as oxybutynin and tolterodine): they can cause dry mouth and constipation, so sip fluids, and eat fibre.
- Nerve pain medicines (gabapentin, pregabalin, amitriptyline, duloxetine): they can cause weight gain, drowsiness, dry mouth and constipation. Watch portions, and avoid alcohol.
- Opioid painkillers: they commonly cause constipation and nausea, so a laxative and a fibre and fluid plan are often needed.
- Anti-inflammatory painkillers: take them with food, and ask your doctor if you have stomach, kidney or heart problems.
- Blood thinners (heparin, enoxaparin, warfarin, newer anticoagulants): they are often used to prevent clots. Keep vitamin K foods, such as leafy greens, steady from day to day if you take warfarin. Do not suddenly change how much you eat.
- Antibiotics: take them as prescribed, and ask whether to take them with food. Avoid using antibiotics for urine without a doctor’s advice.
- Blood pressure medicines and midodrine (for low blood pressure): timing and fluids matter, so follow your doctor’s advice.
- Steroids: used in the early period in some cases. They can raise blood sugar, appetite and blood pressure, and thin bones, so limit sugar and salt, and ask about bone protection.
- Supplements and herbal products: some interact with medicines, so tell your doctor about everything you take.
Do Supplements Help After Spinal Cord Injury?
No supplement has been proven to repair the spinal cord or restore function. Supplements help mainly when a test shows a deficiency.
- Vitamin D and calcium: useful if levels are low, and often advised for bone health. Too much calcium may raise kidney stone risk, so take only what your doctor advises.
- Vitamin B12 and folate: helpful if levels are low.
- Vitamin C, zinc and protein supplements: helpful for people with pressure injuries or poor intake, ideally chosen with a dietitian. High doses can cause stones or other problems.
- Omega-3 and fish oil: support heart health, but can raise bleeding risk with blood thinners.
- Cranberry products and probiotics: evidence for preventing urine infections in SCI is limited or mixed.
- Antioxidants, herbal products and “nerve repair” blends: evidence is lacking, and some interact with medicines or have hidden ingredients.
- Be careful of products that promise to “repair the spinal cord”, “regrow nerves” or “help you walk again”.
Diet Tips Alongside Stem Cell Treatment
Good nutrition supports overall health during any treatment. For patients considering stem cell treatment, a balanced diet complements medical care but does not guarantee results. Stem cell therapy for spinal cord injury is still largely experimental. Research is ongoing and a small number of products have limited or conditional approval in a few countries, but stem cell treatment is not an established or standard treatment for spinal cord injury, and results so far are modest and vary. Standard care, including surgery where needed, rehabilitation, bladder and bowel care, skin care and nutrition, remains the foundation. Unproven stem cell treatments have caused serious complications in some patients, including infections and abnormal growths, so please discuss any treatment with your own spinal injury doctor or rehabilitation team first. Your Viezec doctor will explain what to realistically expect for your own case. Always keep up your rehabilitation, therapy and medicines, and never stop them without your doctor’s advice.
Before treatment
- Eat regular, balanced meals with enough protein, fibre and fluids.
- Keep your bowel and bladder routines steady, and check your skin.
- Stay well hydrated, as advised.
- Share all medicines and supplements with the clinic, including baclofen, blood thinners and bladder medicines.
- Ask your doctor whether blood tests, such as vitamin D, B12, iron, blood sugar or protein levels, would help.
- Avoid smoking and alcohol.
After treatment
- Continue a balanced, nutrient-rich diet.
- Keep up your bowel, bladder and skin care.
- Follow all diet, activity and aftercare instructions.
- Do not start new high-dose supplements without medical advice.
Explore more in our stem cell treatment patient diet guides, read our diet tips for neuropathy patients, diet tips for osteoporosis and diet tips for multiple sclerosis patients, learn about stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury, or book an appointment for a personal plan.
Sample One-Day Meal Plan
This is a general example for a person who can eat normally. Your dietitian will adjust amounts, textures, fibre and fluids for your injury level, bowel and bladder plan and health conditions.
- Breakfast: oats porridge with berries, walnuts and ground flaxseed, or a vegetable omelette with whole-wheat toast
- Mid-morning: a pear, papaya or guava, with a glass of milk or buttermilk
- Lunch: dal, brown rice or roti, a mixed vegetable sabzi, curd and a salad
- Snack: a handful of almonds and pumpkin seeds, or roasted chickpeas, with water
- Dinner: grilled or steamed fish, paneer or tofu with plenty of vegetables and a bowl of soup
- Evening: a few prunes or a stewed apple, if needed for the bowel
- Through the day: water, spread through the day in line with your catheter schedule, plus soups and buttermilk
Adjust the plan for your culture, bowel and bladder routine, swallowing ability, weight goals, diabetes, kidney health, medicines and your dietitian’s advice.
How Long Does It Take to See Benefits From Diet Changes?
Better fibre, fluids and regular meals can improve bowel regularity and comfort within days to weeks. Weight and bone health benefits build over months and years, and pressure injuries heal over weeks to months with good nutrition and care. Diet does not restore movement or feeling. Recovery after spinal cord injury varies widely, with most improvement happening in the first year, and some changes continuing longer. Results differ from person to person.
When Should You Seek Urgent Medical Care?
Get emergency help right away if you notice:
- Signs of autonomic dysreflexia: a sudden pounding headache, flushing and sweating above the injury, blocked nose, slow heartbeat or very high blood pressure
- Choking, or trouble breathing or swallowing
- Chest pain, a sudden breathlessness, or a swollen, red, painful or warm calf or thigh, which can signal a blood clot
- Fever, chills, shaking or feeling very unwell, especially with cloudy or bloody urine, which can signal a urine or kidney infection
- Severe belly pain, a hard swollen belly, vomiting, or no bowel movement with sickness, which can signal a bowel blockage
- A pressure sore with spreading redness, pus, a bad smell or fever, or a wound that is deep or turning black
- Signs of dehydration, such as very little urine, a very dry mouth, dizziness or extreme sleepiness
- Fainting, or a very slow or very fast heartbeat
- Black, tarry stools or vomiting blood
- A fall or knock followed by severe pain, swelling or deformity of a limb, which may be a fracture
- A sudden loss of feeling or movement, or new weakness
When Should You Talk to a Doctor or Dietitian?
Seek advice if you:
- Are losing weight, or gaining weight quickly
- Have constipation, bowel accidents, bloating or diarrhoea that does not improve
- Have frequent urine infections, cloudy urine or bladder stones
- Have a pressure injury or red areas on the skin that do not fade
- Have trouble eating, chewing or swallowing
- Have low blood pressure, dizziness or fainting
- Have diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, kidney disease or heart disease
- Take several medicines, blood thinners or spasticity medicines
- Have low mood, poor appetite or trouble coping
- Want to take supplements, especially high-dose vitamins, calcium or herbal products
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best diet for a spinal cord injury?
A balanced diet with enough protein, plenty of fibre and fluids, calcium and vitamin D, healthy fats and sensible portions. It should be tailored to your injury level, weight, bowel and bladder plan and health conditions.
Can diet repair a spinal cord injury or help me walk again?
No. Diet cannot repair the spinal cord or restore movement or feeling. It supports healing, health, bowel and bladder care, skin, bones and weight alongside rehabilitation.
How much protein do I need after a spinal cord injury?
Protein needs depend on your weight, health and whether you have a pressure injury. People with pressure injuries often need more. Ask your dietitian for a personal target, especially if you have kidney disease.
Why do people gain weight after a spinal cord injury?
Muscle loss and less movement lower the body’s energy needs, so the same food can lead to weight gain. Portion control, fibre, protein and activity help.
How can I manage constipation with a spinal cord injury?
Follow your bowel programme, eat enough fibre, drink fluids, eat at regular times, try prunes and stewed fruit, and stay active. Ask your team about laxatives or suppositories.
How much should I drink with a neurogenic bladder?
Many people are advised to drink about 1.5 to 2 litres a day, spaced through the day, but your doctor will set the right amount for you.
Does cranberry juice prevent urine infections?
Evidence in spinal cord injury is limited and mixed. Ask your doctor first, especially if you take warfarin.
Do I need calcium and vitamin D supplements?
Bone loss is common after spinal cord injury, and many people need extra vitamin D. Ask your doctor to test your levels and advise doses, and avoid large amounts of calcium unless advised.
Does diet matter during stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury?
Yes. A balanced diet supports overall health and recovery but does not replace medical care. Keep up your rehabilitation, bowel, bladder and skin care, and follow your doctor’s instructions.
Does Viezec support international patients with spinal cord injury?
Viezec supports patients from the USA, UK, Australia, France, UAE, Saudi Arabia and other countries with consultation and care coordination. Book an appointment to discuss your case.
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Medical disclaimer: This article is for general information and is not medical advice. Spinal cord injury is a serious, life-changing condition, and no diet or treatment can promise recovery of movement or feeling. Results vary between people. If you have a sudden severe headache with flushing or sweating, choking, trouble breathing, a swollen painful leg, a high fever, or a severe belly pain, seek emergency care immediately. Please consult a qualified spinal injury specialist, rehabilitation doctor or dietitian before changing your diet, fluid intake, supplements or beginning treatment, and do not stop prescribed medicines without their advice.
