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| | Spinal Cord Injury | Paralysis Resource Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Spinal cord injury involves damage to the nerves within the spinal canal; most SCIs are caused by trauma to the vertebral column, thereby affecting the spinal cord's ability to send and receive messages from the brain to the body's systems that control sensory, motor and autonomic function below the level of injury. |
 | | After injury, nerve cells, or neurons, of the peripheral nervous system (PNS), which carry signals to the limbs, torso, and other parts of the body, are able to repair themselves. |
 | | Injury progression prevention drug treatments, decompression surgery, nerve cell transplantation, nerve regeneration, and complex drug therapies are all being examined as a means to overcome the effects of spinal cord injury. |
| www.paralysis.org /site/c.erJMJUOxFmH/b.1293655/k.CF13/Spinal_Cord_Injury.htm (1422 words) |
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