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Cervical spinal cord injury without demonstrable bony injury occurred in 141 (37 per cent) of 384 successive neck injuries admitted to the Sheffield Spinal Injuries Unit. The condition was common in patients in the older age-groups and there were 70 per cent of the cases who were over the age of 50 years. The commonest cause was a fall. The patients presented with varying degrees of motor paralysis with the greatest deficits in the upper limbs and lesser deficits in the lower limbs. There was a dissociation of impairment of the sensory modalities and a loss of bladder and bowel control.
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Hardy, A G & Rossier, A B (1975). Spinal Cord Injuries. Georg Thieme, Stuttgart, p. 30.
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Hardy, A. Cervical spinal cord injury without bony injury. Spinal Cord 14, 296–305 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1976.47
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