ASIA B = Sensory Incomplete ... and the patient had prior deficits, then the AIS grade is E. Understanding Spinal Cord Injury: Part 1 - The Body Before and After Injury (PDF) (en español) The ...

New Orleans, Louisiana — For the treatment of spinal cord ... B, or C. The mean patient age was 39 years. Most patients were male (83%) and had a cervical injury (78%) and ASIA Impairment Scale ...

Patients who showed improvement based on the AIS scale also were able to sit up and turn in their beds. "Since the emergence of stem cells as a potential therapy for spinal cord injury ...

below that level (AIS grade B), and Participant 4 had a T1 spinal cord injury level with partially retained sensation to light touch and pinprick below that level (AIS grade B) (Table 1).

A new therapy to treat spinal cord injuries ... motor complete (AIS-A or AIS-B) cervical SCI. These individuals have essentially lost all movement below their injury site and experience severe ...

InVivo reported that the fifth patient had improved from complete AIS A spinal cord injury to an incomplete AIS B spinal cord injury. With this six-month update, three out of five patients treated ...

There is currently no FDA approved treatment for Spinal Cord Injury ... the ASIA Impairment Scale (AIS). A Complete injury. No motor or sensory function. B Sensory incomplete.

The prediction rule combines the patient's age and the results of 4 neurologic tests and is more accurate than the American Spinal Injury ... Cord Society neurologic standard scale (AIS) grading ...

the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center reported that approximately 4,500 of these new spinal cord injuries annually in the U. S. are AIS-A, AIS-B, or AIS-C patients with C-4 to C-7 ...