For Healthcare professionals
Healthcare Professionals
SBA values the many healthcare providers who take care of people with Spina Bifida. We welcome your input and advice and appreciate all that you do for our community.
Spina Bifida Clinic Care Partners
Spina Bifida Clinic Care Partners (CCP) form a network of clinics that practice the standards identified as essential to enhance health and wellness for people living with Spina Bifida. This network of clinics is identified and recognized for providing exemplary services that demonstrate continual quality improvement. Clinic Care Partners share information via a Listserv dedicated to CCP.
The Guidelines for the Care of People with Spina Bifida
The Guidelines for the Care of People with Spina Bifida were developed to provide every healthcare professional–from generalists to specialists–a road map of the best evidenced-based and expert treatment available from birth through adulthood.
The Lifespan Bowel Management Protocol
The Lifespan Bowel Management Protocol was developed to further support healthcare professionals in the effective, evidence-based management of bowel incontinence – birth to adulthood – for those living with Spina Bifida and neurogenic bowel. The Protocol includes practical recommendations to assist healthcare professionals in making informed treatment decisions with available scientific data. The aggressive implementation of this Protocol will decrease incontinence rates reducing the overall health risk and increasing the quality of life for those living with Spina Bifida
