How are children’s spinal cord injuries different from adults’? - Patricia Mucia, RN

I think that children adapt more readily to everything than adults do. I think they have a great capacity for adaptation, and that they're influenced by their parents' reaction, and so there's more involvement with the family. Often with adults, they can be rehabilitated to take care of themselves, or they have a partner in life that helps them take care of themselves. Children are involved in a unit, which is a family, and so they have siblings, parents, aunts and uncles, whomever it is, doing the caregiving. And I think that their emotions often influence the children, but the children usually deal really well with the change.