According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Database's website:
The National Spinal Cord Injury Database has been in existence since 1973 and captures data from an estimated 13% of new SCI cases in the U.S. Since its inception, 26 federally funded Model SCI Care Systems have contributed data to the National SCI Database. As of October 2007 the database contained information on 25,415 persons who sustained traumatic spinal cord injuries.
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One of the interesting trends I have seen these last several years is the changing terminology. One word in particular is changing — quadriplegia is being replaced by tetraplegia. They mean the same thing, and I am not quite sure why the change. Do you know? This article uses tetraplegia throughout.
In my mind, I will always be a quad. To me, a tertra is a tropical fish. Of course, that's coming from an old quad.
I look forward to your comments.
Later,
Mike
2 comments:
hi Mike.
the Tetra thing relates to ancient Greek, means 4 (hands and feet)
We use it in Europe.. so.
all the best.
t.
Thanks T,
I know the meaning. I was making a weak attempt at a joke about the changing terminology. Like I said in the post, I'm an old quad. :-)
You know what they say about teaching an old dog new tricks.
Later,
Mike
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