Table 2.
Potential predictors by ambulation category
| Current ambulation status | ||||||
| Total | Primary ambulator | Unplanned ambulator | Planned ambulator | Nonambulator | P | |
| Total | 183 | |||||
| Past/current ambulatora | 91 (50%) | |||||
| Current ambulatora | 47 (27%) | |||||
| Current ambulation statusb | 183 | 18 (10%) | 9 (5%) | 20 (11%) | 136 (74%) | |
| Mean age (SD) | 183 | 13.2 (4.8) | 17 (3.6) | 12.4 (4.7) | 14.9 (4.1) | .01 |
| Mean years since injury (SD) | 183 | 5.3 (4.7) | 5.9 (5.6) | 3.8 (2.7) | 5 (4.5) | .74 |
| Age at injury | 183 | 8.1 (5.8) | 11.6 (7.2) | 9.2 (5.8) | 10.3 (6.2) | .24 |
| Maleb | 105 | 11 (11%) | 4 (4%) | 10 (10%) | 80 (77%) | .74 |
| Femaleb | 78 | 7 (9%) | 5 (7%) | 10 (13%) | 56 (72%) | |
| Tetraplegiab | 95 | 12 (13%) | 6 (7%) | 6 (7%) | 71(75%) | .10 |
| Paraplegiab | 88 | 6 (7%) | 3 (4%) | 14 (16%) | 65 (74%) | |
| Sensory level | 183 | C3 | C4 | T4 | C8 | .85 |
| Neurological level | 183 | C3 | C4 | T4 | C8 | .07 |
| Motor level | 183 | C3 | C4 | T4 | C8 | .08 |
| Anal contraction (+)a | 23 | 11 (48%) | 5 (22%) | 2 (9%) | 5 (22%) | <.01 |
| Anal contraction (-)b | 160 | 7 (5%) | 4 (3%) | 18 (12%) | 131 (82%) | |
| Anal sensation (+)b | 88 | 15 (18%) | 8 (10%) | 7 (8%) | 58 (66%) | <.01 |
| Anal sensation (-)b | 95 | 3 (4%) | 1 (2%) | 13 (14%) | 78 (83%) | |
| S4-5 light touch(-)b | 128 | 5 (4%) | 3 (3%) | 17 (14%) | 103 (81%) | <.01 |
| S4-5 light touch (+)b | 55 | 13 (24%) | 6 (11%) | 3 (6%) | 33 (60%) | |
| S4-5 pinprick (-)b | 151 | 5 (4%) | 6 (4%) | 17 (12%) | 123 (82%) | <.01 |
| S4-5 pinprick(+) | 32 | 13 (41%) | 3 (10%) | 3 (10%) | 13 (41%) | |
| Mean lower extremity motor score (SD) | 183 | 29 (14.4) | 25.6 (12.1) | 2.4 (6.7) | 0.97 (3.2) | <.01 |
| Mean upper extremity motor score (SD) | 183 | 43.2 (10.3) | 42.5 (9.7) | 47.9 (6.2) | 37.1 (16.9) | .04 |
a
Number in parenthesis represents the percent of the entire cohort.
b
Number in parenthesis represents percent of the row.