Lots of us...

There are tons of quads/paras out here due to spinal cord injuries...sad but true. 10,000 more per year.

I've been a quad for 30 yrs.

bulldawg :woohoo:

15 years and counting for me!

Best regards

Simon
Quadriplegic and Paraplegic Spinal Cord Injury Peer Support

i saw you posting on the forum today so i am just saying hi, to you .

xx suzan xx

Number of New Injuries per Year
32 injuries per million population or

7800 injuries in the US each year

Most researchers feel that these numbers represent significant under-reporting. Injuries not recorded include cases where the patient dies instantaneously or soon after the injury, cases with little or no remaining neurological deficit, and people who have neurologic problems secondary to trauma, but are not classified as SCI. Researchers estimate that an additional 20 cases per million (4860 per year) die before reaching the hospital.

Total number of people with Spinal Cord Injury
Current estimates are 250,000 - 400,000 individuals living with Spinal Cord Injury or Spinal Dysfunction.

82% male, 18% female
Highest per capita rate of injury occurs between ages 16-30
Average age at injury - 33.4
Median age at injury - 26
Mode (most frequent) age at injury 19

www.makoa.org/nscia/fact02.html

82% of men

So most women don't drive motorbikes? Or are women more careful?

oooooohhhh.......
when i was younger a few of my friends were killed whilst biking.
i much prefer being a passenger, but havent done so for years.
i used to really enjoy that adrenalin rush.

i used to use a smallbike to get me to work, wwork out of rural town. i used to have a lot of early morning starts, it was terrifying riding on ice in winter, and there were a lot of traffice lights at the bottom of sm.hills, somehow theey allways seemed to be on red for me !!! caareful doesnt describe it .... I was terrified!!...

xx suzan xx

Hey, Karl. I think it only proofs that 82% of men in the U.S. are stupid, and I WAS one of them, though I never really had a spinal cord injury or spinal cord dysfunction. However, that's just another reason I wanted to immigrate to another country. I don't want to be identified as one of these dummies.

When I am driving in my wheelchair outside I always have it on top speed. At 5 mph I can even cause some damage.

So, is it natural to go fast?

ive never had a motorized or self propelling chair.
when i did have a chair, i needed someone to help me get around, and i never went outside in bad weather.

how do they cope on ice???? are the tyres designed to grip???

xx suzan xx

Welcome bulldawg to Ablehere

I thought I'd add an article for some Paraplegic suffers, whom might be suffering from: Carpal Instability (Midcarpal Instability/Wrist Instability):

Carpal Instability in the Weight-Bearing Upper Extremity

The prevalence of carpal instability in a paraplegic population was investigated to establish an association between chronic repetitive stress on the wrist and the development of such instability.

Nine of 162 paraplegic patients had static carpal instability and no history of an acute injury of the wrist.

The predominant pattern of instability, found in eleven wrists (six patients), was non-dissociative volar intercalated segmental instability.

The prevalence of carpal instability increased with the duration of weight-bearing on the upper extremity.

Eighteen per cent of the patients in whom the spinal cord injury had occurred more than twenty years before the study had carpal instability.

Carpal instability in these weight-bearing upper extremities and the increase in its prevalence with the duration of the forces across the wrist demonstrate an association between chronic repetitive stress on the wrist and carpal instability.

In conclusion, the present study of a paraplegic population demonstrated an association between carpal instability and chronic repetitive stress on the wrist.

Static carpal instability was found in 6 per cent of our entire study population and in 18 per cent of the patients who had had the spinal cord injury for more than twenty years.

This increase in the prevalence with the duration
of stress on the wrist suggests chronic repetitive stress as an etiology of carpal instability.

The predominant pattern of carpal instability was non-dissociative volar intercalated segmental instability.