Description: Spinal Cord Injury: DefinitionEpidemiologyPathophysiology - Spinal cord injury (SCI) is an insult to the spinal cord resulting in a changeeither temporary or permanentin its normal motorsensoryor autonomic function. The International medicine and rehabilitation 1999; 80(11): 1411-1419[Medline]. DeVivo MJ: Epidemiology of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

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