This weekend marks the first anniversary of the relaunch of our website. We would like to thank everyone involved and most of all to our visitors. We hope you continue to find our website informative and relevant. Our aim is ultimately to support anyone recently diagnosed through to those who...
Heat can significantly affect people with spinal cord injuries (SCI), including any residual spinal cord damage from spinal cord tumour compression. If you feel you get sluggish, “funny” legs it is actually a well-known phenomenon, known as Uhthoff’s Phenomenon. 1. Nerve Signal Disruption from Heat What it is: A temporary...
We recently received some feedback from a Facebook member of our SCT Forum. “Thank you so much for the website. This was one of the first places I found and brought me to here [SCT Forum Facebook]. Thank you so much too the contributors of the website , it’s an...
Another of our updated Your Stories – to read Paul’s update click here
...We are pleased to launch this newly designed website for the Spinal Cord Tumour Forum. We have added to our Blog page and have introduced a News page There will be further additions to the website in the future.
Our aim is to provide interesting and useful information and advice about spinal cord tumours, and, more importantly, the impact on those it affects and that life can and does carry on.
The Spinal Cord Tumour Forum is a support group for people who have a benign spinal cord tumour or are living with its effect after surgery. This support group was created by and is run by spinal cord tumour sufferers.
These tumours can cause huge problems even if they are benign as they can damage nerves and disturb the functions of different parts of the body. These effects can sometimes be long term even if surgery to remove the tumour has been successful.
Tumours which grow in the spinal cord are rare. For many users of this website this will be their first contact with another sufferer and we would like to give them this opportunity to reach others and to share their experiences and gain access to useful information.
Please read some of your stories or see the further options below for ways to find out more…
We recently received some feedback from a Facebook member of our SCT Forum. “Thank you so much for the website. This was one of the first places I found and brought me to here [SCT Forum Facebook]. Thank you so much too the contributors of the website , it’s an
We are looking for a volunteer to assist with our editorial of the website. It will involve sourcing, researching and publishing posts here. The publishing to the website is easy to do and we can show you how to do that. So if you have a few spare hours a
The Spinal Cord Tumour Forum has been away for a while but we are now back and have made some changes to the website. We hope you will find our new website informative and interesting.
