In honor of the second annual National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness month, here are seven interesting spinal cord injury statistics worth knowing:
There are approximately 285,000 people in the U.S. living with spinal cord injury in 2017
The average age at injury has increased from 29 years during the 1970s to 42 years currently
There are 17,500 new SCI cases on average in the U.S. each year
Males account for about 81% of new spinal cord injury cases
About 30% of people with spinal cord injury are re-hospitalized one or more times during any given year following injury
Spinal cord injury costs roughly $40.5 billion annually
Vehicle crashes are currently the leading cause of spinal cord injury (38.4%), followed by falls, and acts of violence
Source: The United Spinal Association
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