Funding For Spinal Cord Injury In Ohio The Ohio Commission on the Prevention of Injury and the Ohio Post-critical Trauma Care Commission released findings and recommendations today at Children’s Hospital in Columbus. As a result of the work from the two reports about $250,000 in new federal funding was awarded to a partnership group for statewide safety programming. “Of the millions of Ohioans who survive injuries, many suffer long-term consequences such as permanent disability; time lost from work and family; costly medical expenses; and pain and suffering,” said John Corrigan, Ph.D. chair of the Ohio Post-critical Trauma Care Commission. Spinal cord injury tend to result in more serious and long-term consequences. About 200,000 people have disabilities due to traumatic spinal cord injury with 11,000 new cases annually. Injury is the leading cause of death and disability for Ohioans ages 1 through 34 and is the sixth leading cause of death for all age groups, the prevention of injury report says. More than 5,000 Ohioans die each year from injury-related causes.