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Civil Fraud Quarterly Round-Up: Q1 2021
Mary Young
Over the past few weeks our blogs have looked at spinal and back anatomy and the common causes of spinal cord injury. This blog looks at the types of spinal cord injury that can occur and provides a summary of the 6 clinical syndromes all of which present in a slightly different way.
A spinal cord injury can be sub-grouped by clinical presentation. There are 6 well known spinal cord injury syndromes. These are:
Most patients who sustain a spinal cord injury will require an initial period of rehabilitation in one of the specialist spinal injury treatment centres across the country prior to returning home. The clinical outcome and functional deficit experienced can vary and will depend on the severity and level of the spinal injury. This highlights the variable nature of spinal cord injury and how each injury is specific to the individual. Generally speaking the spinal cord injury syndromes present as follows:
The summary above shows variety of symptoms when dealing with spinal cord injuries. It is essential that an individual who has suffered such an injury accesses specialist medical and rehabilitative treatment as soon as possible to enable them to achieve the best possible outcome from what is a serious and life changing injury.
If you, or a member of your family, have been affected by any of the issues raised in this blog, or any of our other blogs, please contact one of our specialist back and spinal injury lawyers on enquiries@kingsleynapley.co.uk or call 020 7814 1200.
Read the first edition of our spinal injury blog series "Spinal Injury: an overview" here.
We welcome views and opinions about the issues raised in this blog. Should you require specific advice in relation to personal circumstances, please use the form on the contact page.
Mary Young
Sital Fontenelle
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