Patient-reported challenges in spinal cord injury rehabilitation and integration within the community of a lower middle-income country: opportunities for changing lives

Patient-reported challenges in rehabilitation and community-integration of individuals with SCI, highlight gaps in access to basic amenities in houses, inaccessible transport and public spaces and financial-hardships caused by lack of coverage of rehabilitation costs and unemployment in the low socioeconomic strata despite numerous health policies and schemes. These challenges prompt urgent research in the health system and open opportunities for strategic-planning of context-specific, participatory, sustainable, climate-resilient measures to rebuild lives and facilitate respectful integration in society and alleviation of socio-economic burden of SCI.