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Aging and spinal cord injury

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2002

WS El-Masry  and
NHJ Haboubi
WS El-Masry
Affiliation:
Midland Centre for Spinal Injuries, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic & District Hospital NHS Trust, Oswestry, Shropshire, UK.
NHJ Haboubi
Affiliation:
Midland Centre for Spinal Injuries, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic & District Hospital NHS Trust, Oswestry, Shropshire, UK.
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Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a catastrophe that affects the individual, the partner, the family and the community. Society is involved in the broader sense, in the funding of the treatment and long-term support of individuals with SCI. SCI causes complex medical, physical, psychological, social and financial interactions. Although the physiological impairment following a SCI typically affects the locomotor and sensory systems, there is nearly always a resulting dysfunction that affects most bodily systems. Both the multi-system physiological impairment/dysfunction and non-medical aspects of SCI remain in a dynamic state for the rest of the individual’s life. This means that lifelong treatment and monitoring is required by a dedicated multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary team of health and social care professionals.

Type
Rehabilitation
Information
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , August 2001 , pp. 269 - 276
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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