Join the virtual SCI Nutrition Support Group every Tuesday!

If you’re living with a SCI, what foods should you eat to maximize your health? What should you avoid? Which foods can impact your pain, digestion, bowel and bladder function, and help you avoid secondary complications like UTIs?

Nutrition for people with SCIs is often overlooked and underemphasized but it’s one of the easiest ways to gain significant control over your health. With all the conflicting information out there, it can be hard to know what to do, especially since most of the conventional advice does not apply to wheelchair users or people with any kind of paralysis.

Every Tuesday at 9am PST, SCI Boston hosts a zoom discussion group open to everyone with a SCI. Join in and learn from not one, but two highly trained dietitians who work at Spaulding Rehab Hospital and specialize in nutrition for SCI.

Keith DiPalma, from Johnston, RI, was hesitant about the group at first, but has now become a regular and shares this:

The nutrition group has been such a helpful resource in improving my day to day health by showing me how adjusting my diet is much more crucial than any pill or powder we are advised to use. When I was newly injured I thought I had to live with having abdominal pain all the time but I have learned through this group that is not the case and they seem to make it fun as well.

Joe Rohling, who lives in Wisconsin, says:

When I was first injured the one thing I truly did not give much attention to was nutrition, especially since I found it hard to understand.  Wrong idea. Olivia and Megan, the dietitians who run the program, are wonderful. They make nutrition fun and are a wealth of information. 

Zoom meeting info available here (scroll down to SCI Nutrition Group)

*** On the Dec 5th meeting, NorCal SCI Executive Director Arash Bayatmakou will do a live cooking demonstration of tasty soups that are perfect for the winter ***