Neuropathology: the foundation for new treatments in spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord
B A Kakulas

Abstract

The first step essential in the search for a cure of human spinal cord injury (SCI) is to appreciate the complexity of the disorder. In this regard, it is not only the loss of ambulation but the sensory and autonomic changes that are equally important in recovery. In addition, there are the serious social emotional psychological and lifestyle effects of SCI which should also be taken into account. It is also true that no two SCI lesions are alike as each is the result of a SCI unique to that individual. Clinically of utmost importance is the segmental level of injury and whether it is complete, incomplete or discomplete (loss of all neurological functions below the injury but with physiological or anatomical continuity of Central nervous system tracts across the lesion). We are not concerned here with primary and secondary prevention or methods designed to limit the severity of the lesion after the event, important as they are, but with the requirements for a cure. Clearly, the greater the number of nerve fibers that can be preserved in the acute stage, the better will be the end result. Our focus at present is on the end-stage lesion with the aim of showing that a cure for SCI will depend upon establishing functionally useful ...Continue Reading

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