September: Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is damage to the spinal cord resulting in a change in normal motor, sensory, or autonomic function. Frequent causes of spinal cord injuries are trauma (car accident, gunshot, falls, etc.) or disease (polio, spina bifida, Friedreich’s ataxia, etc.). A spinal cord injury is defined by the neurological level, as well as severity, and determines where the function is lost. Project Walk Houston understands every injury is unique. However, an injury does no