Spinal Cord Injury

With 247,000 Americans currently living with a spinal cord injury, and approx. 11,000 injuries occurring each year, daily routines such as driving a car or walking down a flight of stairs, can unexpectedly result in a life changing injury with physical and lifestyle constraints. For the past 20 years, the number of injuries per million has remained stable at 40 incidents per million.

Brain Injury

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an injury to the brain as a result of accident or injury. It may be focal (confined to a small area) or diffuse (affecting a large area of the brain). When an outside force impacts the head hard, a brain injury can occur. Impactions can happen in various ways, either causing the brain to move within the skull, or breaking the skull and hurting the brain on contact. Although, among the elder and infants, the leading cause of brain injuries are falls. Infants can also obtain a brain injury fr om being shaken violently.

Amputation Injury

in the United States, there is an estimated 1.7 million people living with an amputation and approximately 135,000 new amputations yearly. While 75% of all amputations happen in persons over the age of 65, the peak age for limb loss is between 41 and 70. Also, males have a higher amputations rate than females. There are many reasons for an amputation, including vascular disease (circulation problems), cancer, trauma, and congenital (from birth).