Seniors who fall, not car accidents, are now the primary cause of traumatic spinal cord injury in the U.S., according to new research from the John Hopkins University School of Medicine. Researchers discovered that the average age of adults with traumatic spinal cord injury is 51, with the greatest increase in injury being from those 65 and older. Falls may prove deadly for elderly adults, but as study author Shalini Selvarajah, M.D., M.P.H., a postdoctoral surgical research fellow at Hopkins says, “It’s an area that is ripe for prevention.”

Source: agingcare.com

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