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In the developed world, the primary
cause of spinal injury is sports and leisure activity; the availability
of highly equipped facilities for aid and rehabilitation is taken as read.
In Nepal, such injuries are usually linked to subsistence living and accidents,
such as porters having accidents on trekking trails and people falling
from trees and cliffsides whilst foraging for fodder for their livestock.
Many victims are separated from any medical assistance by the difficult
Nepali terrain and even those who are treated have massive life changing
situations because they come from villages unable to support someone in
a wheelchair, and a move into the city is the only alternative. |
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