Early Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injury Paralysis caused by spinal cord injury is a kind of serious disability, which has great influence and blow to both patients’ ability to take care of themselves and their psychological tolerance. Timely early rehabilitation of spinal cord injury patients can make patients in the shortest possible time, with less treatment costs, get the maximum recovery, reduce the burden on the family, society, and provide favorable conditions for patients to continue to create value for society. I. What is spinal cord injury? Spinal cord injury is a structural/functional damage to the spinal cord caused by a variety of different injury factors, resulting in changes in motor, sensory, and autonomic functions below the level of injury. They are categorized as complete, incomplete and cauda equina injuries, and are mainly caused by traffic accidents, falls from height, traumatic injuries, sports injuries, and so on. When should the treatment of spinal cord injury start? Spinal cord injuries should be treated with surgery within 6 hours after the injury, which is the best time for spinal cord recovery. If the injury cannot be treated within 6 hours, treatment should be given within 24 hours. Medication should be started within 8 hours. Spinal cord injury is a serious and disabling injury and rehabilitation should be intervened early, either at the time of injury or in the ICU. It is an important task to carry out early rehabilitation along with correct and timely emergency treatment, surgical treatment and drug treatment. The middle and late stages should be based on rehabilitation treatment. Third, what is the early rehabilitation of spinal cord injury? Wrong view: It is thought that rehabilitation starts after the end of clinical treatment and is the continuation of clinical treatment. Correct point of view: rehabilitation and clinical treatment should start at the same time, only that rehabilitation should be the main focus in the later stage. Early rehabilitation must be carried out in spinal cord injury, in the immediate aftermath of spinal cord injury, on the first day after the injury. Spinal cord injury must carry out early intensive rehabilitation, which means that according to the spinal cord injury to determine the rehabilitation program, in the body can afford to increase the time of rehabilitation training and rehabilitation content, while improving the training methods, increase the intensity of appropriate. What is the purpose of early rehabilitation for spinal cord injury? The purpose of early rehabilitation of spinal cord injury is: 1. To prevent and actively treat various complications. 2.Improve the residual muscle strength and joint mobility, and improve the patient’s daily life activities. 3.Improve the patient’s psychological condition. V. What should be done for early rehabilitation of spinal cord injury? Rehabilitation of spinal cord injury should be started in the early stage, specifically: turn over regularly to prevent pressure sores; move all joints of the limbs to maintain normal mobility; muscle strength exercises to enhance the patient’s muscle strength; intermittent urinary catheterization and bladder reflex exercises; gradually raise the head of the bed to complete the exercises from lying to sitting, and so on. Sixth, the early rehabilitation education of spinal cord injury rehabilitation education is the key to early rehabilitation: 1, the patient is an active participant in early rehabilitation, not a passive recipient, must master the relevant knowledge and skills through education. 2.Early intensive rehabilitation requires the cooperation of the patient’s family, so the family should also understand the knowledge of spinal cord injury. 3. The goal of early and intensive rehabilitation is that patients return to the community as soon as possible to carry out community rehabilitation. Rehabilitation Education