An Overview of Spinal Injuries due to Dive or Fall into Shallow Water: Our Long-Term, Double-Center Experience from the Aegean Coast

Table 1

The features of spinal cord injury at the cervical region due to dive or fall into shallow water.

Type and site of injury	n (%)
Dislocation	21 (53.8)
Cord compression	23 (59)
Traumatic disc injury	11 (28.2)
Preoperative spinal cord edema	23 (59)
Anterior ligament injury	14 (35.9)
Posterior ligament injury	18 (46.2)
Level of lesion
C1	5 (12.8)
C2	1 (2.6)
C5	16 (41)
C6	11 (28.2)
C7	6 (15.4)
Site of injury (column)
Anterior	2 (5.1)
Middle	2 (5.1)
Posterior	9 (23.1)
Anterior and middle	8 (20.5)
Middle and posterior	2 (5.1)
Anterior and posterior	2 (85.1)
Anterior, middle, and posterior	13 (33.3)
Missing data	1 (2.6)