Mary Schmidt-Read

TL;DR: The booklet describes the recommended International Standards examination, including both sensory and motor components, and describes the ASIA (American Spinal Injury Association) Impairment Scale (AIS) to classify the severity (i.e. completeness) of injury.

TL;DR: The latest revision of the International Standards for the Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury (ISNCSCI) was available in booklet format in June 2011, and is published in this issue of the Journal of Sp spinal Cord Medicine.

TL;DR: The ISNCSCI was recently reviewed by the ASIA's Education and Standards Committees, in collaboration with the International Spinal Cord Society's Education Committee, and it was recommended that the numerous items that were revised should be published and a precedent established for a routine published review.

TL;DR: Results indicate that rehabilitation, which provides intensive activity-based therapy, can result in functional improvements in individuals with chronic incomplete SCI and significant functional recovery can continue to occur even years after injury when provided with locomotor training.

TL;DR: The current state of a specific SCI rehabilitation intervention (locomotor training), which has been shown to be efficacious although thoroughly debated, and the findings from a multicenter collaboration, the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation's NeuroRecovery Network are reviewed.