Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice ›› 2015, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (08): 889-893.

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Aging Following Spinal Cord Injury (review)

WANG Yu-ming1, FENG Yu-tong2, LI Jian-jun1,2, WU Yong-gang3   

  1. 1. Department of Spinal and Neural Functional Reconstruction, Beijing Bo'ai Hospital, China Rehabilitation Research Center, Beijing 100068, China; 2. Capital Medical University School of Rehabilitation Medicine, Beijing 100068, China; 3. Bayannur Hospital, Bayannur, Inner Mongolia 015000, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Published:2015-08-25 Online:2015-08-25

Abstract: Spinal cord injury has changed the function of human body and the way of life, and reduced the reserve capacity of the organs of various systems, which exceeded the body's repair ability itself, and overlapped with physiological aging and premature senescence appeared. This paper reviewed recent studies and analyzed the relation of the injured age, the chronological age, number of years after injury with dysfunction, predicted the function changes of them, and identified the factors related with their quality of life.

Key words: spinal cord injury, aging, review