The American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) established a grading system called the ASIA Impairment Scale to describe the severity of spinal cord injuries. The system uses the letters A through ...

Doctors use the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury when determining the classification of injuries. If there is ...

A “complete” spinal cord injury is an absence of motor or sensory function in the area around the anus. This is an “ASIA A” classification on the ASIA Impairment Scale. Understanding Spinal Cord ...

Spinal cord injury is a complex condition ... cells 22 months after their injuries and improved one level on the ASIA scale after treatment. Two of three patients with complete injuries of ...

The American Spinal Injury Association Impairment (ASIA) impairment scale is what’s used to measure spinal cord injury severity — here’s what it looks like: Grade A: Complete sensory or ...

Table 2 ASIA Impairment Scale for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. Guidelines for the evaluation of spinal trauma in patients with normal neurologic examinations focus on establishing spinal ...

If you experience weakness and a loss of fine motor function in your arms and hands after neck trauma, you may have a spinal cord injury called central cord syndrome. This type of injury can ...

“Collaboration on this international scale is a vital step toward our vision of a fully autologous regenerative therapy for spinal cord injury,” said Gil Hakim, CEO of Matricelf. “Matricelf ...