Spinal Cord Injury in Elderly People: Prevention of Complications
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Geriatric Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2026 | Viewed by 27
Special Issue Editor
Interests: spinal cord injury; urinary tract management; spinal cord injury in the older persons
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, titled “Spinal Cord Injury in Elderly People: Prevention of Complications”. The topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Prevention of spinal cord injury in older persons;
- Complications observed during admission in the trauma unit and measures to reduce these complications;
- Complications encountered while undergoing rehabilitation in the spinal injuries centre;
- Complications experienced by elderly people with spinal cord injury in the community after discharge from the spinal unit;
- Healthcare associated infections in older persons with spinal cord injury;
- Co-morbidities in elderly people with spinal cord injury;
- Challenges in the management of co-morbidities in older persons with spinal cord injury;
- Causes of death among older persons with spinal cord injury;
- Cancer in elderly people with spinal cord injury;
- Cardio-renal metabolic syndrome in older persons with spinal cord injury.
Please submit your contributions as soon as possible. Together, we can improve the care of elderly people with spinal cord injury. We welcome reviews and articles on all aspects of the clinical management of elderly people with spinal cord injury.
We follow NHS England statement: “Generally, someone over the age of 65 might be considered an older person”. We believe that, by recognizing, documenting, and reporting the complications as well as the co-morbidities seen in the older persons with spinal cord injury, we shall be able to contribute significantly to medical knowledge and patient management within the evolving landscape of clinical research.
Dr. Vaidyanathan Subramanian
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- spinal cord injury
- demography
- morbidities
- complications
- spinal injuries
- patients
- family members
- caregivers
- general practitioners
- discharge
- elderly
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