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Interesting Statistics Feb 25, 2014 22:59:11 GMT -8

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Post by Butiki on Feb 25, 2014 22:59:11 GMT -8

here are some interesting statistics about Spinal Cord Injury.

250,000 Americans are spinal cord injured.
52% of spinal cord injured individuals are considered paraplegic and 47% quadriplegic.
Approximately 11,000 new injuries occur each year.
82% are male.
56% of injuries occur between the ages of 16 and 30.
The average age of spinal cord injured person is 31.
SCI injuries are most commonly caused by:
Vehicular accidents 37%
Violence 28%
Falls 21%
Sports-related 6%
Other 8%
The most rapidly increasing cause of injuries is due to violence; vehicular accident injuries are decreasing in number.
89% of all SCI individuals are discharged from hospitals to a private home, 4.3% are discharged to nursing homes.
Only 52% of SCI individuals are covered by private health insurance at time of injury.

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Interesting Statistics Feb 25, 2014 23:07:51 GMT -8

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Post by Lαrα on Feb 25, 2014 23:07:51 GMT -8

Interesting Butiki...i thought that the leading cause of Spinal Cord Injury was now falls in the USA.? I read an article this month which stated this...

The number of serious spinal cord injuries in the United States is rising, and it's not for the reason you may think. Falls, especially among older Americans, now surpass car accidents as the leading cause of spinal cord injuries, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University.

It seems that the elderly are becoming Spinal Cord Injured due to falling and i guess that now that the population is living longer i can imagine that falling is more prevalent so people develop associated health issues that can cause loss of balance etc.

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And this is for the UK..

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So his shows that falls are now the most common cause of Spinal Cord Injury...a factor for this is again the incidents of falls that are occur among the elderly..

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Interesting Statistics Feb 26, 2014 8:54:33 GMT -8

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Post by ladylimpsalot on Feb 26, 2014 8:54:33 GMT -8

Very interesting! Thanks for posting this Butiki.
I think also that as our population ages, that more will suffer SCIs. But at this point I am more interested in the younger injured. One other thing that jumped to my attention is that the single are more likely to suffer SCI than the married.

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