SPINAL CORD INJURY: WHAT CHANGES IN A DECADE
In the past decade, patients with spinal cord injury were aimed to determine the changes in the duration of the demographic data, rehabilitation and etiology.
Between 2003-2006 and 2013-2016, spinal cord injured patients who rehabilitated inpatient in Istanbul Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital, were retrospectively analyzed. 100 patients who rehabilitated inpatient in previous years, and 100 patients who rehabilitated inpatient in recent years, were included in the study. The demographic data, etiology, levels of injury, duration of hospital stay, time since injury of patients were assessed by scanning patient files and databases.
The average age of former patients was 39,3 ± 14,7 years, and the average age of new patients was 41,02 ± 17,6 years. 41% of former patients was female and 59% of them was male, and 37% of new patients was female and 63% of them was male. 83% of former patients was paraplegic and 17% of them was tetraplegic, and 76% of new patients was paraplegic and 24% of them was tetraplegic, were detected respectively. The most common etiological factors in former patients were found to be 34% falls from a height, 25% traffic accidents, 14% gunshot wounds, 6% iatrogenic factors, and the most common etiological factors for new patients were determined as 31% falls from a height, 17% traffic accidents, 11% gunshot wounds, 12% iatrogenic factors. 51% of former patients was admitted to the first time in rehabilitation, and this rate was 46% in new patients. In recent decades, the rehabilitation rate of patients was found to be
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The ranking of the most common causes of etiologic factors was unchanged, but there seems to be an increase in iatrogenic