Tag: Spinal Cord
What experimental clinical therapies are available?
Several clinical trials are assessing therapies that are applied within 2 weeks after injury.
These include activated macrophages (which may help repair the injured cord),...
What is spasticity and neuropathic pain?
Spinal cord injury disconnects the brain from the spinal cord below the injury site. The spinal cord below the injury site does not...
How long will recovery take?
Recovery takes a long time. Most recovery occur within 6 months but many people continue to recover function for a year or more.
A recent...
Does recovery occur after spinal cord injury?
Many doctors tell patients and families that recovery does not occur after spinal cord injury. This is not true. Recovery is the rule, not...
What is the prognosis?
The types of disability associated with SCI vary greatly depending on the severity of the injury, the segment of the spinal cord at...
How is sexuality affected by spinal cord injury?
Sexual function, as in all other human bodily systems, is controlled by the central nervous system. Thus, any injury to the central nervous...
What does the spinal cord look like and what does it do?
The cord in humans may be likened to a coaxial cable, about one inch in diameter, and is a continuation of the brain.
It...
Will he or she recover?
Recovery is the rule and not the exception after spinal cord injury. The probability of recovery is high, especially after “incomplete” spinal cord injury.
Clinical...
About SCI
Injury to the spinal cord (the nerves that carry most messages from the brain to the body and vice versa) in the neck or...
Mice regrow damaged spinal cord
Scar block encourages nerves in spine to regenerate.
Damaged spinal cords in mice have been encouraged to grow back by blocking a scar-causing molecule. The...
