Researchers have found that fatigue and sleep may need more attention in order to prevent issues like stroke after spinal cord injury. People with spinal cord injury have alarming rates of stroke and we wanted to understand why? We found that the risk of fatigue is nine times greater in individuals with spinal cord injury compared to those without said study lead Aaron Phillips Assistant Professor at University of Calgary in Canada. Working with colleagues in Canada Serbia and Croatia the team determined that fatigue and sleep issues were prevalent in people with spinal cord injury and that sleep-related breathing
