The knowledge of the prevalence of spinal cord disorders
(SCD) is important to understand specific causes in each part
of the worldand to allow to potentially adapt health care and
public policy including law enforcement to the main causes.
SCD have important personal, biopsychological, socio-economic,
short-term and long-term consequences. An SCD is
the underlying cause for 1 of every 40 patients admitted to
a major trauma centre. The affected population consists primarily
of young male adults. The aim of the present study
was to determine the prevalence and cause of SCD in Al-
Quseir City, using a door-to-door method. The total of inhabitants
was 33,285 in Al-Quseir City screened by 3 specialists
of neurology. Suspected cases were subjected to full clinical
assessment and MRI or CT of the spine. The prevalence rate
of SCD was 63/100,000 for the total population. Traumatic
spinal cord injury had a prevalence of 18/100,000, while nontraumatic
SCD was found in 45/100,000. Degenerative cervical
disc prolapse was the most common aetiology of SCD
with a prevalence rate of 27/100,000.