Spinal cord
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Data extraction from a state-wide, population-based, health-administration database of hospital admissions. ⋯ NTSCI is strongly correlated with age and is more common than traumatic spinal cord injury. The method used in this study to calculate the incidence of NTSCI can be used to monitor the anticipated increase in the incidence of NTSCI in the years ahead, and can be used to in comparative studies.
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Postal survey. ⋯ Persons with SCI tend to experience high pain intensity over multiple body locations. Lower body pain was as common as upper extremity pain, but tended to be more intense.
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A basic study using a spinal cord injury (SCI) model in rats. ⋯ These results suggest that hypothermic treatment is effective for the amelioration of delayed motor dysfunction via inhibition of microglial inflammatory responses.