Abstract. Fifteen children who sustained traumatic spinal cord injury in British Columbia over a 1 3 -year period have been reviewed. The aetiology, incidence of spinal fracture, length of hospitalisation and subsequent spinal surgery, and their self-care, transfer and ambulatory abilities, bowel and bladder management, schooling, employment and place of abode have been determined.
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