Pathogenesis of Spinal Cord Injury and Newer Treatments

Many victims of traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) suffer immediate paralysis as well as a subsequent progressive worsening of the cord pathology. Certain sensorimotor functions that might otherwise have returned are irreversibly lost because of this delayed response. An understanding of the pathophysiology behind this progressive, self-destructive sequence is yet to be acquired; however, numerous proposals have been set forth involving …