Secondary complications and associated injuries in traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injury patients

Milicevic, Sasa; Bukumiric, Zoran; Karadzov-Nikolic, Aleksandra; Sekulic, Aleksandra; Srbislav, Stevanovic; Janković, Slobodan

doi:10.5937/sjecr1201015m

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“…Studies conducted by Norrbrink et al ( 51 ), Martin Ginis et al ( 23 ) and van der Scheer et al ( 52 ) also indicated a positive effect of exerciseon the reduction of musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain. The majority of our participants (a total of 68.2%) had an urinary infection, which is consistent with the data from other studies ( 10 , 53 ). Pressure ulcers, in our study, as the second most common secondary health conditions, occurred in 38.6% of the participants, while in other studies this frequency varied between 21.1 and 41.8% ( 54 , 55 ).…”

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The Impact Of Sports Activities On Quality Of Life Of Persons With A Spinal Cord Injury

Kljajić

Eminović

Dopsaj

et al. 2016

Slovenian Journal of Public Health

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ObjectivesStudying the quality of life of people with a spinal cord injury is of great importance as it allows the monitoring of both functioning and adaptation to disability. The aim of this study was to determine the difference between persons with a spinal cord injury involved in sports activities and those not involved in sports activities in relation to their quality of life and the presence of secondary health conditions (pressure ulcers, urinary infections, muscle spasms, osteoporosis, pain, kidney problems-infections, calculosis and poor circulation).MethodsThe study included a total of 44 participants with spinal cord injury-paraplegia of both genders; 26 of them were athletes and 18 were not athletes. The athletes were training actively for the last two years, minimally 2-3 times per week. A specially designed questionnaire, medical documentation and the Spinal Cord Injury Quality of Life Questionnaire (SCI QL-23) were used for research purposes. Chi-square test was used to analyze the differences between the groups, while multiple analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used to determine the differences between the sets of variables.ResultsAmong the participants, the athletes perceived higher quality of life than the non-athletes (male gender p<0.001 and female gender p<0.05). Regarding secondary health conditions, the athletes reported the presence of less pain (p=0.034) and a subjective feeling of better circulation (p=0.023).ConclusionThe implementation of sports activities significantly improves quality of life in the population of people with spinal cord injury-paraplegia. However, sports activities only partially affect secondary health conditions.

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“…The most common secondary health conditions in SCI are: pain, bowel and bladder regulation problems, muscle spasms, fatigue, esophageal symptom and osteoporosis ( 9 ). In addition, pressure ulcers, urinary infections, kidney problems (infections, calculosis) and poor circulation are often present in persons with SCI ( 1 , 10 ).…”

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