Self-health rating 'does not depend on spinal injury severity'RSS Feed

The severity of spinal cord injury does not impact on how adults rate their health, a study has identified.

Research published in the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine revealed that self-rated physical ability came above severity of spinal cord injury when determining the level of overall self-rated health.

Cathy Lysack, of Wayne State University, stated that many non-disabled people may think those with spinal cord injury would have low health ratings.

However, the study underlined that health and disability are not the same thing.

"But we did not find that. A person with a disability is certainly limited in many ways, but just because they are disabled does not mean they feel their health is poor," he explained.

"You can be living with a disability and still be in very good or even excellent health."

This follows news of an innovative new wheelchair which could greatly improve the quality of life for those with spinal cord injury.

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in America have developed the technology that would allow wheelchair-users to steer the device using a magnetic tongue stud.

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