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Daily Archives: September 17, 2005

Has the spinal cord been decompressed?

The spinal cord injury usually results from fracture of vertebral bones that compress the spinal cord. Continued spinal cord compression increases tissue damage...

How is spinal cord injury classified?

In 1990, the American Spinal Cord Injury Association (ASIA) proposed a uniform classification system that had five categories, defined in Table 1. Motor...