Spinal cord injury
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What is spinal cord injury?
Spinal cord injury may involve the spinal cord, vertebrae, or both that causes permanent and/or progressive interruption of impulse conduction.
Common symptoms reported by people with spinal cord injury
Treatments taken by people for spinal cord injury
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Compare treatments taken by people with spinal cord injury
Let’s build this page together! When you share what it’s like to have spinal cord injury through your profile, those stories and data appear here too.
Got a question about living with spinal cord injury? Members in the forum might have the answers.
Who has spinal cord injury on PatientsLikeMe?
- 0 new patients joined this month
- 1369 say spinal cord injury is their primary condition
| Age | Proportion | # of patients |
|---|---|---|
| <20 | 0 | |
| 20s | 37 | |
| 30s | 136 | |
| 40s | 115 | |
| 50s | 110 | |
| 60s | 109 | |
| 70+ | 302 |
Distribution of sex
| Sex | Proportion | # of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Male | 756 | |
| Female | 697 |