Injuries of Traumatic spinal cord are on rise in United States

In United States, the serious traumatic spinal cord injuries are on rise and its cause is not appearing to be due to automobile crashes but is found to be due to falls as suggested by the researches of Johns Hopkins. Moreover, the same researches present that the number of injuries range from short term numbness to full paralysis which are increasing fast in aged people according to the efforts to stop falls in aged people may lead to restrain the number of injuries in spinal cord. According to Shalini Selverajah, M.D., M.P.H., a postdoctoral surgical research fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, “We have demonstrated how costly traumatic spinal cord injury is and how lethal and disabling it can be among older people.” The researches have assessed a countrywide representative model of 43,137 adults who are treated in medical emergency centers mainly for spinal cord injury between 2007 and 2009 in US. Actually, in a previous study, it was covered that an average age of people with a disturbing and painful spinal cord that covered is between 2000 to 2005 was to 41 and now is 51 as per the studies.