Rehabilitation for participation in life after spinal cord injury - clinician responses to a preliminary conceptual framework.

Face validity testing suggests the preliminary HEAR Framework is promising as a basis for spinal cord injury rehabilitation theory. Broad-based testing is required to progress the promise of the Framework.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONSpinal cord injury rehabilitation lacks conceptual frameworks to guide practice.This validity study suggests moderate alignment between the preliminary HEAR Framework and usual practice (based on the perceptions of professionals in a spinal cord injury service).The Framework may be useful to individual rehabilitation practitioners as a basis for clinical reflection.The Framework may be useful as a practice development tool for teams of rehabilitation practitioners.