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Your spine and spinal cord injury
Read the following articles to find out about your spine, how to avoid spinal cord injury, and what happens to you and your spine after spinal cord injury or disease.
Christopher Reeve urges proactive care for people with spinal cord injury
Speaking at the NSW Premier s Forum on Spinal Cord Injury and Conditions, keynote speaker actor Christopher Reeve emphasised the need for a paradigm shift towards proactive care of those with spinal cord injury (SCI), and the need for research to be
Diving accidents
Diving into shallow water can cause spinal cord injuries leading to paraplegia, tetraplegia (quadriplegia) or death.
Paraplegic or quadriplegic?
In spinal cord injury, the spine is normally damaged somewhere along its length. Thus it is said that you have broken your back or neck.
Spinal cord and vertebral column
The spinal cord, located within the vertebral column, is a soft cylindrical structure made up of highly organised nervous tissue.
Spinal cord injury prevention
Many spinal injuries can be prevented by using safe practices while working or playing.
Spinal cord injury: frequent causes
The most common causes of damage to the spinal cord are traumas.
Spinal cord injury: rescue techniques
In all first aid care following an accident, it is vital to prevent secondary spinal injury.
Spinal cord injury: what are the effects?
The effects of spinal cord injury (SCI) vary depending on the type and level of injury sustained. We can divide SCI into two categories - complete and incomplete.
Spinal cord injury: what is it?
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) involves damage to the spinal cord that results in a loss of function such as mobility or feeling.
Spinal cord injury: who is affected?
Anyone at all can be affected by spinal cord injury, no matter what their age.
Speaking at the NSW Premier s Forum on Spinal Cord Injury and Conditions, keynote speaker actor Christopher Reeve emphasised the need for a paradigm shift towards proactive care of those with spinal cord injury (SCI), and the need for research to be
Diving accidents
Diving into shallow water can cause spinal cord injuries leading to paraplegia, tetraplegia (quadriplegia) or death.
Paraplegic or quadriplegic?
In spinal cord injury, the spine is normally damaged somewhere along its length. Thus it is said that you have broken your back or neck.
Spinal cord and vertebral column
The spinal cord, located within the vertebral column, is a soft cylindrical structure made up of highly organised nervous tissue.
Spinal cord injury prevention
Many spinal injuries can be prevented by using safe practices while working or playing.
Spinal cord injury: frequent causes
The most common causes of damage to the spinal cord are traumas.
Spinal cord injury: rescue techniques
In all first aid care following an accident, it is vital to prevent secondary spinal injury.
Spinal cord injury: what are the effects?
The effects of spinal cord injury (SCI) vary depending on the type and level of injury sustained. We can divide SCI into two categories - complete and incomplete.
Spinal cord injury: what is it?
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) involves damage to the spinal cord that results in a loss of function such as mobility or feeling.
Spinal cord injury: who is affected?
Anyone at all can be affected by spinal cord injury, no matter what their age.
