Abstract
Purpose: The study's aim was to compare women with and without high tetraplegia with respect to sociodemographic, clinical, and functional characteristics and their changes after spinal cord injury (SCI). A secondary aim was to compare, within the population of women with high tetraplegia, subgroups of women with major versus minor neurologic deficits. Method: This study was a case series comprising a total of 2,813 women from the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (NSCISC) database. The main outcome measures included selected sociodemographic and medical variables, as well as scores in various clinical and functional assessment tools. Results: At the time of injury, women with high tetraplegia were significantly older than those with SCI at or below C5, and the study sample included a higher proportion of married women. The vast majority of participants had high school or lower level of education at the time of injury and a small proportion had a competitive job at their 1-year anniversary. T...
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