# Any statistics about spine injury sufferers who didn't lose the use of their legs....

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**Created:** [July 27, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-statistics-about-spine-injury-sufferers-who-didnt-lose-the-use-of-their-legs/257180 "2004-07-27T23:46:46Z")\
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… eventually (years later) losing the use of their legs.  
I fractured a vertebrae (sp?) a year or more ago, and every day I think about my movements and posture so as not to agrivate the injury and damage the spinal cord.  
I understand that the bone is fully healed up (though healed into a squashed shape) but is it considerably weaker now? Am I in considerable more danger than a non-spine injured person of agravating and damaging the spinal cord? Are there any known statistics?