Table 1 Study inclusion and exclusion criteria for patients with spinal cord injury

Inclusion criteria:

• Age ≥ 18 years

• Ability to effectively communicate in English

• Ability to provide informed consent

• Willing to participate and answer 5 sets of questionnaires over 1-year.

• Acquired SCI – traumatic, spinal cord stroke, malignancy (not active), surgical injury, transverse myelitis.

Exclusion criteria:

• Congenital SCI – cerebral palsy, spina bifida, caudal regression, sacral agenesis.

• Progressive SCI – multiple sclerosis, active malignancy, progressive neurologic diseases leading to SCI