Restoring Function to the Injured Human Spinal Cord

This book has two major themes: one, to provide a general un­ derstanding of the biology of spinal cord injury (SCI) in ani­ mal models and their relationship to naturally occurring inju­ ry in man, and secondly, to review novel means to induce functional recovery from spinal cord injury based on develop­ mental biophysics and physiology. These are new innovations in the treatment of SCI, born of ...