Therapists' perspectives on fall prevention in spinal cord injury rehabilitation: a qualitative study.

This study revealed opportunities to improve the delivery of fall prevention education and training to individuals with spinal cord injury/disease.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONFall prevention education should be initiated in spinal cord injury rehabilitation and then reinforced in community rehabilitation.Barriers and challenges faced by therapists when delivering fall prevention and management education/training in spinal cord injury rehabilitation include their perceptions of a patient's readiness to receive fall prevention education, short length of stay in rehabilitation, organization's expectations of zero falls and a lack of spinal cord injury-specific fall prevention resources.Therapists who work in spinal cord injury rehabilitation may benefit from information about fall risk factors encountered by individuals with spinal cord injury/disease in the community.