Aging Following Spinal Cord Injury (review) / 中国康复理论与实践

ABSTRACT

Spinal cord injury has changed the function of human body and the way of life, and reduced the reserve capacity of the or-gans 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.