What is spinal cord injury?

Spinal cord injury may involve the spinal cord, vertebrae, or both that causes permanent and/or progressive interruption of impulse conduction.

How do members experience spinal cord injury?

Top 5 symptoms reported by people with spinal cord injury*

*Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.

Top treatments taken by people for spinal cord injury*

Who has spinal cord injury on PatientsLikeMe?

Age

Age Proportion # of patients
<20 8
20s 34
30s 143
40s 265
50s 392
60s 441
70+ 250

Distribution of sex

Sex

Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 797
Female 761

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What is spinal cord injury?

Spinal cord injury may involve the spinal cord, vertebrae, or both that causes permanent and/or progressive interruption of impulse conduction.



Common symptoms reported by people with spinal cord injury

Common symptoms
How bad it is
What people are taking for it

Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.
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Treatments taken by people for spinal cord injury

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Compare treatments taken by people with spinal cord injury

Let’s build this page together! When you share what it’s like to have spinal cord injury through your profile, those stories and data appear here too.

Got a question about living with spinal cord injury? Members in the forum might have the answers.



Who has spinal cord injury on PatientsLikeMe?

  • 0 new patients joined this month
  • 1,419 say spinal cord injury is their primary condition

Age
Age Proportion # of patients
<20 8
20s 34
30s 143
40s 265
50s 392
60s 441
70+ 250

Distribution of sex

Sex
Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 797
Female 761

These charts show data from spinal cord injury patients who have completed their condition history
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