This review examines, in a condensed manner, many of the major achievements related to
spinal cord injury research during the last quarter century. Most of the advances have been …

Handbook of Clinical Neurology: Spinal Cord Injury summarizes advances in the clinical
diagnosis, monitoring, prognostication, treatment, and management of spinal cord injuries …

Tissue destruction at the primary site of a spinal cord injury leads to persistent necrosis that
progressively enlarges the lesion. Steroids attenuate this necrotizing process and promote …

Background context: Recent advances in neuroscience have opened the door for hope
toward prevention and cure of the devastating effects of spinal cord injury (SCI). Purpose: To …

Spinal cord injury (SCI) has an annual occurrence rate in North America of approximately
11,000 cases (10,000 in USA and 1,000 in Canada) and is an important cause of morbidity …

Spinal cord injury (SCI) triggers a complex cascade of molecular and chemical events that
leads to progressive cell loss and tissue damage. 1, 2 Nearly a century of fundamental basic …

This article reviews the pathology of human spinal cord injury (SCI), focusing on potential
differences between humans and experimental animals, as well as on aspects that may …

Thirty years ago, patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) and their families were told “nothing
can be done” to improve function. Since the SCI patient population is reaching normal life …

Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a life changing neurological condition with substantial
socioeconomic implications for patients and their care-givers. Recent advances in medical …

There is evidence from both clinical and experimental studies that the spinal cord suffers
both primary and secondary damage after acute spinal cord injury. The pathophysiology of …