Data: The spinal cord injury cohort, 1972 to 2025
Chart data used in the essay, extracted from the values in the published page.
No new data collected; see essay footnotes for full citations.
Files
era_anchors.csv — mean age at injury and cause-of-injury shares per era.
Cause columns: vehicular, violence, sports, falls, medical/surgical, other,
unknown (percent within era).
Sources and access
- NSCISC 2021 Annual Statistical Report, Table 36 (1972-79 through 2015-21 cohorts).
- NSCISC 2026 Data Sheet through August 2025 (“Since 2015” anchor, shown separately).
- National incidence: Jain et al. 2015. National prevalence: Lasfargues et al. 1995.
- Data extracted from the essay file on 2026-10-11.
- None. Values are the published table values; shares may total 99.9-100.1%
because the published table rounds each category.
- These describe Model Systems centers (roughly 13% capture per a 2013 factsheet),
not a complete national registry. Scene deaths are excluded.