“Spinal cord injuries are dismayingly common. More than one million people in the United States are paralyzed from them. More than half of spinal cord injuries in America result from car accidents or gunshot wounds, so, as you might expect, men are four times more likely to get a spinal cord injury than women. They are especially susceptible between the ages of sixteen and thirty— Bryson, Bill. The Body (p. 310). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. ”