November 2010

Every forty-one minutes, someone in America sustains a traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) . Approximately eleven-thousand people in America experience a TSCI every year. Car accidents are a common cause of TSCI; however, there are a number of other causes: sports injuries, falls, and gunshot wounds. See here.

Patients treated at a Level I

A vehicle spins out on a wet road or highway. It crosses the median divide and ends up in oncoming traffic. If the vehicle is an SUV or van, it may even roll.

The driver wasn’t speeding. And the road may have been perfectly straight. So what happened? Just another hydroplaning accident? Driver error? Maybe.