Background Spinal cord injuries occur worldwide; often being life-threatening with
devastating long term impacts on functioning, independence, health, and quality of life …

Context: Despite functional improvements during rehabilitation, variable functional outcomes
were reported when patients with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) return to society. Higher …

The spinal cord is a conduit within the central nervous system (CNS) that provides ongoing
communication between the brain and the rest of the body, conveying complex sensory and …

Study design: A retrospective cohort study. Objectives: To review demographic trends in
traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) and non-traumatic spinal cord injury (NTSCI). Setting: The …

Background Traumatic spinal cord injury remains a serious public health and social
problem. Although incidence rates are decreasing in our environment, it is a high cost …

New PW. Functional outcomes and disability after nontraumatic spinal cord injury
rehabilitation: results from a retrospective study. OBJECTIVE: To describe, in a group of …

Study design: A systematic review was undertaken, based upon methods recommended for
effectiveness questions but adapted to identify observational risk factor (RF) studies …

Study design: A retrospective hospital-based study. Objective: To describe the
epidemiological profile of traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) in Guangdong Province …

Study design: Multi-centre prospective descriptive study. Objective: To establish a profile of
the population affected with traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) admitted to …

Study design: Retrospective, 12-year case series. Objective: To compare neurological and
functional outcomes, and complications of patients with traumatic vs non-traumatic spinal …