Being told you have a spinal injury will mean many different things to different people but, whatever your injury, there are things that you will want to know. This page will start to answer some of those questions but as every spinal cord injury (SCI) is different you may find that you won’t get all your questions answered here. What we do hope to do is to give you some help in understanding some of the terms and phrases you might be hearing and some places to go if you would like more information. It may be that after reading some of this you feel that it doesn’t apply to you but we would still suggest that you make a note of this page as you may want to come back to us in the future if things change or you have an issue that you can’t resolve.