Recent data reveal that such systemic immune suppression and a protracted stress response are not limited to stroke and brain injury. These also occur after spinal cord injury (SCI), opening up ...

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 ...

five lumbar, five sacral, and one coccygeal nerve. Damage to the spinal cord can cause paralysis. When the spinal cord is severed at any point due to injury, a number of resulting forms of ...

A recent Nature Medicine study identifies neurons in the lateral hypothalamus that can be therapeutically targeted to improve walking abilities following spinal cord injury (SCI). SCI damages ...

The UAB-SCIMS offers a series of Fact Sheets on selected topics related to SCI. Some Fact Sheets are products of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System (UAB-SCIMS).