Complications in patients with spinal cord injury at the Instituto Nacional De Rehabilitación “Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra” from 2015 to 2023.
Keywords:
SPINAL CORD INJURY, SPASM, PRESSURE INJURIES, SPASTICITYAbstract
Abstract
Objective: To Describe the main complications that occur in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) at the Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación “Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra”. Materials and methods: An observational, cross-sectional and comparative study was carried out in the SCI service, of patients with the diagnosis of SCI from 2015 to 2023. Results: 1327 individuals were studied. The most frequent neurological level was the lower thoracic (30.8%) and the majority presented traumatic, complete SCI. 61.9% of subjects presented complicactions, the most frequent were pressure sores, pain and spasticity. We found associations between the different complicactions and some clinical and sociodemographic variables. The majority of injuries were traumatic (64.7%). Conclusions: The majority of patients with SCI presented complications. The most frequent complications were pressure ulcers, pain, spasticity and spasms. Keywords: Spinal cord injury, complications, pressure injuries, spasticity, spasms.
Publication Facts
Reviewer profiles N/A
Author statements
Indexed in
- Editor & editorial board
- profiles
- Academic society
- N/A
To learn about these publication facts, click 
PF is maintained by the Public Knowledge Project
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
© Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license which allows to reproduce and modify the content if appropiate recognition to the original source is given.
