Tips for Caregivers of People with Spinal Cord Injury

Recovery from a spinal cord injury is unpredictable and can be frustrating. Those who provide care for a loved one with a spinal cord injury can gain insight and encouragement from these tips from longtime rehabilitation case manager Bridget Metzger, CCM.

In this 10-minute podcast, Metzger advises patients and families about caregiving needs once the patient is discharged from rehabilitation. This podcast and others are available at shepherd.org/news/radio or can be downloaded as an MP3 file from the link above. A transcript of the interview is also available on the Shepherd Center Radio web page.

Metzger helped developed Shepherd Center's e-book titled "Spinal Cord Injury:  A Guide for Caregivers." It can be downloaded by clicking here.

Metzger is is a case manager in the Acquired Brain Injury Program at Shepherd Center. She is also the former director of injury prevention and education. Before that, she worked as a case manager in the Spinal Cord Injury Program at Shepherd Center for four and a half years. Metzger has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from San Francisco State University and a master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling from Georgia State University. She is a certified case manager, a licensed professional counselor and a certified rehabilitation counselor. Metzger sits on Georgia State University’s Certified Rehabilitation Counselor Advisory Board, the injury prevention sub-committee of the American Spinal Injury Association, and the Georgia Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund Commission’s Advisory Board.