There are approximately 4300 new spinal cord injuries each year in Canada Globally, there are approximately 40 to 80 spinal cord injury cases per million annually. In Canada, the occurrence is approximately 1,298 cases per million. Currently there is approximately 90,000 Canadians who are living with a spinal cord injury. There is approximately 4,300 new spinal cord injury cases each year in Canada. There are approximately 11,000 new SCI cases caused by trauma each year in the United States with over 250,000 Americans living with SCI today.