When a traumatic injury or disease causes sudden spinal cord impairment, it can have profound effects on our lives. The following questions are from a scale designed to assess how your injury has affected your life. Listed below are four statements describing different thoughts and feelings that you may experience when you think about your injury.

Please indicate the degree to which you have these thoughts and feelings when you think about your injury on a 5-point scale with the endpoints where 0 indicates “not at all” and 4 indicates “all the time”.