A spinal cord injury (SCI) can happen any number of ways including an accident (automobile collision for instance) a sports injury a fall etc. An injury is the result of direct impact on the spinal cord which consists of the nerves that connect the brain to nerves in the body. Any injury to the spinal cord could mean the interruption (often permanent) of messages between the brain and the rest of the body. In other words if you can no longer walk after an SCI it is because your body has lost the ability to be told by your brain how to walk.
There are approximately 11000 new cases of spinal cord injury in the U.S. each year. The annual incidence rate is roughly 40 cases per million population not including those who die at the Scene of the Accident. In July 2005 there were about 250000 people in the U.S. living with an SCI.
Grossman Law Offices represents clients who have received a spinal cord injury as the result of an accident.
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