2023-11-17 10:04:21
Every year, 50 million people are injured worldwide due to a road accident, many of them with permanent consequences. In Spain, the Spanish Society of Neurology estimates that at least eight out of every ten hospitalized victims of traffic accidents suffer neurological injuries.
According to data from the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT)in the last year there were more than 130,000 people involved in a road accident, of which 8,500 required hospitalization for more than twenty-four hourss. According to Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN), 85% of hospitalized traffic accident victims suffer permanent neurological consequences.
Despite efforts to reduce them, Traffic accidents remain the eighth cause of death globally and the first in the age group between 5 and 29 years.
For this reason, on Sunday, November 19, we commemorate the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victimsan anniversary promoted by the United Nations since 2005 and which seeks to reduce the number of victims in road accidents.
Every year, around the world, 1.3 million people die as a result of a road accident and more than 50 million are injured, many of them with permanent consequences.
Neurological consequences after a road accident
The SEN In his interest in the worrying increase in road victims who are affected in one way or another by neurological sequelae, he estimates that eight out of ten people hospitalized due to traffic accidents They suffer permanent injuries to the spinal cord and brain.
Approximately, according to the organization itself, and 50% of new cases of spinal cord injury due to trauma occur in road accidents.
Craniocerebral trauma
He head trauma by accident it means 60% of brain damage cases acquired and becomes the main cause of disability in young people.
Furthermore, today, around 34% of head injuries among minors are due to use of the electric scooter.
He Hospital Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona points out that in recent years 40% more accidents of this type have been detected. In fact, as the hospital itself points out, electric scooter accidents have increased the number of cases of head trauma treated in emergency services associated with these accidents by 27.5%.
A child with a mask enjoys his scooter in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. EFE/Ramón de la Rocha
Neurophysiotherapy
Selma Peláez, Coordinator of the Neurophysiotherapy Section of the Spanish Society of Neurology indicates that it is necessary to focus on prevention to avoid both the loss of life in traffic accidents and the disability of survivors. Furthermore, he maintains that it is essential to provide care and assistance to people with permanent consequences.
“To achieve this, it is essential that victims of traffic accidents who suffer brain damage or spinal cord injury receive specific Neurophysiotherapy treatment early and intensively,” adds the specialist.
Neurophysiotherapy is a type of physiotherapy specialized in the neurological field that, according to the coordinator, is vital to minimize the consequences that reduce the autonomy and quality of life of the victims.
“This approach must have an individualized approach based on therapeutic exercise, always taking into account the preferences and objectives of the affected personas well as the family and environmental conditions so that a comprehensive and personalized neurorehabilitation plan is established,” concludes the Neurophysiotherapy coordinator of the SEN.
Reduce traffic accidents
The SEN recalls on the occasion of the World Day of Remembrance of Traffic Accident Victims that the website can be accessed “Manual of Neurology and Driving”a work prepared by the association itself in collaboration with the DGT where the neurological aspects that influence driving vehicles, the effect of drugs, etc. are analyzed…
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