What is the recovery time after stem cell therapy for Spinal Cord Injury?
Surgical or injection recovery is separate from neurological recovery. Follow an individual rehabilitation and skin, bladder, bowel and respiratory plan; new weakness, severe pain, fever, wound change or autonomic symptoms require prompt assessment.
What the evidence shows for Spinal Cord Injury
Early trials often focus on feasibility and safety. Interpretation requires exact product, injury level and completeness, time window, route, surgery, rehabilitation dose, comparator, blinded neurological and functional outcomes and long-term tumour, infection and worsening-risk surveillance. The FDA consumer alert states that the promoted regenerative products it addresses are not approved in the United States to treat neurological disorders. Natural recovery and intensive rehabilitation must be separated from product effect.
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Sources & further reading
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