Overview of Spinal Cord Injuries

Welcome to Spinal Cord Injury Content Creation Project. This page is being developed by participants of a project to populate the Spinal Cord Injury section of Physiopedia. 
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  1. What is a SCI
  2. Causes of SCI
  3. Initial medical management (conservative and surgical)
  4. Different types of SCI (tetraplegia and paraplegia)
  5. Long term management of individuals with SCI (link to all other appropriate pages from this project)

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What is a Spinal Cord Injury [edit | edit source]

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