September 5th every year is the International Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day, which aims to encourage more people with spinal cord injuries to break through the constraints of physical barriers and return to society through hard work.

International Spinal Cord Injury Day

September 5th every year is the "International Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day", which aims to encourage more patients with spinal cord injuries to break through the constraints of physical barriers and return to society through hard work. Spinal cord injury is also called paraplegia or high paraplegia. According to data released by the World Health Organization, the incidence of spinal cord injury is one in 1,000. Based on this, it is estimated that there are at least about 1.3 million spinal cord injury patients in my country, and the rate is 5 per year. ~70,000 growth rate.

At 09:00 am on September 5, 2022, the Department of Orthopedics and Spine Surgery of Shanghai Tongji Hospital will jointly carry out online expert science popularization activities to introduce to everyone a series of issues related to spinal cord injury.

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How to deal with fractures in the elderly?

Chief Physician Wang Xin of the Department of Orthopedics teaches patients and their families about conservative treatment and surgical treatment in the form of animation

Different outcomes for elderly patients with intertrochanteric fracture

Provides guidance and help for patients to correctly choose the appropriate treatment method

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