J Neurotrauma 2022 Jun 16. Epub 2022 Jun 16.
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 12286, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Newark, New Jersey, United States.
The demographics of acute traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) have changed over the last few decades, with a significant increase in age at the time of injury, a higher percentage of injuries caused by falls, and incomplete tetraplegia becoming the most common type of neurological impairment. Incomplete SCI syndromes, most specifically central cord syndrome (CCS), anterior cord syndrome (ACS) and Brown Sequard syndrome (BSS), constitute a substantial proportion of incomplete tetraplegia and SCI overall. Nevertheless, the updated incidence of these syndromes is not well known and their estimates vary considerably, largely due to methodological inconsistencies across prior studies. Read More