Spinal cord injury
Drug-loaded nanoparticles may prevent paralysis from spinal cord injury
Sustaining a spinal cord injury (SCI) is devastating enough, but the subsequent inflammation and the damage it causes to the spinal cord can worsen the clinical outcome
500 critically injured, killed each year in Turkey after diving headfirst into shallow waters
Some 500 people each year in Turkey break their necks, either dying of respiratory failure instantly or suffering spinal cord injury and mostly becoming wheelchair-bound as a result of diving headfirst into shallow waters, with the figures reaching thousands of people when added with world figures.