Abstract

Long-term functional recovery following spinal cord injury (SCI) is difficult to prognosticate accurately.1 Spontaneous neurologic recovery occurs in some but not all cervical lesions that are initially classified as complete.2 The ability to predict the likelihood of recovery is of obvious value for the individual who has sustained an SCI, and in stratifying patients for clinical trials.3 A greater total width of spared tissue is correlated with improved functional outcomes.4 A recent study by Vallotton et al.5 takes advantage of the anatomical segregation of sensory and motor pathways along the spinal cord to demonstrate the utility of considering individual widths of the dorsal and ventral tissue bridges to predict sensory and motor recovery independently.

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