Citation

Sliwa JA, Lim AC, Roth EJ. Paraplegia 1992; 30(4): 288-291.

Affiliation

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group -- Palgrave-Macmillan)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1625900

Abstract

Despite advances in acute care and long term management, traumatic spinal cord injury remains a devastating and disabling event. This report describes the case of a second traumatic spinal cord injury in a previously rehabilitated and functionally independent paraplegic. Factors potentially associated with the second spinal cord injury in this patient include wheelchair use, previous spinal fusion, alcohol use and sensation-seeking behavior. These factors, which are common to many spinal cord injured patients, could potentially be risk factors for a second traumatic spinal injury.

Language: en