Conditions we treat at the Spinal Cord Injury Program

The MedStar NRH Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders Program provides comprehensive care for adults older than 18 years old.

Children with spinal cord injury and illness are treated at the National Center for Children’s Rehabilitation at MedStar NRH. To learn more about the pediatric program, click here.

We treat patients with a wide-variety of spinal cord injury and diseases, including:

• Traumatic Spinal cord injury
• Spinal cord disease
• Spinal stenosis with myelopathy
• Postoperative spine surgery
• Multiple sclerosis
• Transverse myelitis
• Gillian Barre Syndrome
• Spine bifida
• Spinal cord tumors
• Post-surgical care of pressure wound closure
• Long-term complications after spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord Injury: A Primer on Understanding SCI and Its Effects

Make an Appointment

For more information about the Spinal Cord Program at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, please call

202-877-1152

Specialists

• Lorraine Vinci PSYD
  Co-Director - Spinal Cord Program
• Pamela Ballard, MD
  Attending - Spinal Cord Program
• Suzanne Groah, MD
  Director of SCI Research
• Richard Zorowitz, MD
  Attending - Outpatient Clinic

Patient Resources

• Emergency Preparedness
• Managing Spinal Cord Injury (NRH Press publication) 
• How To Videos Library
• Spinal Cord Injury Program Flyer
• The Reeve Foundation
• The Rick Hansen Institute
• Paralyzed Veterans of America