摘要：Introduction: There is dearth of data on Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) from developing countries where ironically,special focus is required.Aims and Objectives: To study SCI in an organisational set up.Material and Methods: An observational,cross sectional study at a tertiary care rehabilitation centre was conducted.Patients who had injury during service were included.Questionnaire and case records were used to collect socio-demographic variables,cause,level,severity and duration of injury and clinical,functional and psychological status.Organisational support was estimated for pre-hospitalisation services,inpatient welfare measures and post-hospitalisation rehabilitative services.Results: A total of 157 patients participated.Median age at time of injury was 27 years with 89.2% injuries within 18 - 37 years of age.Trauma was underlying cause in 94.3%.Most common level of injury was thoracic (37.6%) and majority (66.9%) were paraplegic.RTA was most common (42.6%) traumatic cause and Tuberculosis among non-traumatic causes(66.6%).Scores suggestive of stress disorder were present in 13%.Pre-hospitalization health facilities were available to 79.6%.Majority (59.2%) had access to health facilities within two hours.Personal assistance was available to 88.5% and 66.9% undertook rehabilitation course.Conclusion: Health education with emphasis to trauma prevention in young is required.Social security measures need to be replicated by all organisations,both public and private in the country.
