[Quality of life from the viewpoint of patients with spinal cord lesions]

Before the existence is negotiating of individuals that present lesion medular, we came across the problem involved in the daily of those people after a situation of sudden and unexpected trauma. With the intention of rendering effective cares to these people worried, in this study, in identifying the situation for the which they are passing, there were been changes and which were them, so much in psychic level as physicist and social. For so much, he/she/it opted for the accomplishment of a semi-structured individual interview, being used the resource of the recording, the instrument of collection of data consists of identification data and data regarding the interviewee's life. The speech free with recording and posterior transcription characterizes a study of case of nature, above all, exploratory. The obtained data received a thematic analysis using conceptions about life quality according to FORATTINI (1991). In this study they were identified a physical deficiency and a series of inabilities. The deambulação is the first loss noticed by the patient after the lesion and its first subject to the professional closer of him, it is that settles down a communication channel that allows this expression. But we should remember the possible process of rehabilitation that doesn't approach only the search for the locomoção, permeating the re-learning in this new life situation. We verified modifications in all the spheres (physics, social, psychological), and the most affected. according to the picked data, went the psychological and to social due to the physical alterations. The main loss sensation refers to the social paper, and this is characterized, mainly, for the impossibility of coming back to the work. The changes in the solemnity-image conceptions and self-esteem were also identified, in smaller degree, for the sensation of inability. The more important and comprehensibly told physical loss refers the sensibility loss and motive capacity of the members.