Abstract
Spinal cord injury is a chronic condition that may lead to various physical and psychological sequelae including pressure sores, depression, and spasticity. In-person, health self-management training has been found to reduce the prevalence and reoccurrence of spinal cord injury-related secondary conditions, such as autonomic dysreflexia, pressure sores, bowel and bladder dysfunction, depression, and spasticity. With advancements in smartphone technology and access, mobile health apps have emerged as a cost-effective, population-based means to facilitate behavioral change related to self-management. Over the past decade, multiple mobile health apps have been developed to promote self-care and assist with secondary condition management among people with spinal cord injury. The purpose of this chapter is to review cutting edge research on mobile health apps for people with spinal cord injury, including one we developed. Despite their emerging prevalence and success in small-scale implementation studies, large-scale intervention studies and pragmatic trials are needed to determine the effectiveness of mobile health apps for spinal cord injury populations.
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