Spinal Cord Injury, Posttraumatic Stress, and Locus of Control Among the Elderly: A Comparison with Young and Middle–Aged Patients

Psychiatry ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Cheung Chung ◽  
Eleni Preveza ◽  
Konstantinos Papandreou ◽  
Nikolaos Prevezas
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Spinal Cord Injury ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Aged Patients ◽  
Cord Injury

Locus of control among spinal cord injury patients with different levels of posttraumatic stress disorder

2007 ◽  
Vol 152 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 253-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Cheung Chung ◽  
Eleni Preveza ◽  
Konstantinos Papandreou ◽  
Nikolaos Prevezas
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Spinal Cord Injury ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Cord Injury ◽  
Different Levels

Clinical and Radiological Differences in Patients Following Traumatic SCI at Different Ages

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-314
Author(s):  
Thalia Saraiva Mendonça ◽  
Vitor Dias de Arruda Andrade ◽  
Pedro Nogarotto Cembraneli ◽  
Julia Brasileiro de Faria Cavalcante ◽  
André Salotto Rocha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Spinal Cord Injury ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Compression Fracture ◽  
Facial Trauma ◽  
Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury ◽  
Elderly Adults ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Cord Injury ◽  
Middle Aged Adults

Background. Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a lesion that can affect several spinal structures, including the vertebrae, spinal cord, ligaments, and other adjacent parts of the spine. Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) can cause functional changes in patients of different ages. Material and methods. The study aims to determine whether there are social, clinical, and radiological differences between young, middle-aged, and elderly adults with SCI caused by a ground-level fall. This retrospective study analyzed the records of patients with a clinical diagnosis of SCI. It enrolled patients with traumatic spinal cord injury after a ground-level fall divided as follows: young aged adults 18–35 years of age (G1); middle-aged adults aged 36–60 years (G2); and elderly adults aged over 60 years (G3). Their clinical, social, and radiological variables were analyzed. Results. It is observed that low schooling level, being widowed, and being a homemaker were more frequently encountered among elderly adults, whereas being single was more common in middle-aged adults. The morphologic diagnosis of compression fracture and the associated injury of facial trauma occurred more frequently in elderly adults, with an increasing tendency with age. Conservative therapeutic management was most commonly encountered in elderly adults, compared to surgery from a posterior approach in middle-aged adults. Listhesis was better identified in middle-aged adults by computed tomography (CT). Spinal cord contusion and injury to the C1 vertebra were demonstrated in young adults by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Conclusions. 1. Elderly adults with low education level, widowed, and homemakers were more susceptible to SCI caused by a fall. 2. Single marital status was more frequently noted in young adults. 3. The most frequent clinical aspects were the morphological aspect of compression fracture and fa­cial trauma as an associated injury in elderly adults, with the occurrence of facial trauma increasing with age. 4. Conservative therapeutic management was more common in elderly adults than surgery from a po­sterior approach in middle-aged adults. 5. Re­garding the radiological aspects of CT, listhesis was better identified in middle-aged adults. Spi­nal cord contusions and C1 vertebra lesions were better identified in young adults by MRI.

247. Predicting mortality following traumatic cervical spinal cord injury in the elderly

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. S121
Author(s):  
Tom Inglis ◽  
Daniel Banaszek ◽  
Nathan Evaniew ◽  
Dilnur Kurban ◽  
Vanessa K. Noonan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Spinal Cord Injury ◽  
Cervical Spinal Cord ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Cervical Spinal Cord Injury ◽  
Cord Injury
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