Spinal Cord Injury

Abstract

Classically we have been presented in the heart of medical schools, to that disease known as TRAUMA, as a prevalent condition in the second to fourth decade of life, without being the TRAUMATISM RAQUIMEDULAR an exception to it. Now, thanks to the fact that the health conditions of the populations have improved in the last decades, likewise, the population epidemiological profile has varied; The threshold of life expectancy has shifted upward, so that humanity has aged and more people of the third and fourth age are more exposed to spinal trauma and progressively we will see more and more older adults immersed in this condition. This ultimately means that the general population of patients with spinal cord trauma will increase.