{"id":218,"date":"2015-11-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/spinal-cord-injuries-in-the-united-states-facts-to-consider\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:29:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:29:06","slug":"spinal-cord-injuries-in-the-united-states-facts-to-consider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/spinal-cord-injuries-in-the-united-states-facts-to-consider\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinal cord injuries in the United States: facts to consider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When someone suffers a spinal cord injury, it can be life-changing. While in some cases, this type of injury can lead to sudden death, others are left to deal with the tragic injury the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National SCI Statistical Center, spinal cord injuries fall into several categories, including incomplete and complete tetraplegia, and incomplete and complete paraplegia. The most common type since 2010 is the incomplete tetraplegia.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics also show that the age of the person who suffers a spinal cord injury has increased since the 1970s. Back then the average age was 29 years old. Now that number has risen to 42. Not surprisingly, about 80 percent of all new spinal cord injury cases happen to men.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/spinal-cord-injuries-in-the-united-states-facts-to-consider\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Spinal cord injuries in the United States: facts to consider\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone suffers a spinal cord injury, it can be life-changing. While in some cases, this type of injury can lead to sudden death, others are left to deal with the tragic injury the rest of their lives. According to the National SCI Statistical Center, spinal cord injuries fall into several categories, including incomplete and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spinal-cord-injuries","tag-spinal-cord-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spinal cord injuries in the United States: facts to consider &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; November 15, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Spinal cord injuries in the United States: facts to consider - Spinal Cord Injuries - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/spinal-cord-injuries-in-the-united-states-facts-to-consider\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Spinal cord injuries in the United States: facts to consider &#8212; 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