A Review of Spinal Cord Injury, Looking Into the Role of Closed Reduction, Timing of Surgery and Evidence For and Against the Use of Steroids in Acute Spinal Cord Injury

Cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) can result as a consequence of traumatic cervical spine fractures or dislocations. They occur as a result of narrowing of spinal canal narrowing or by direct displacement of one component of the cervical spine causing focal compression of the spinal cord Reduction of the dislocation would help to restore the deformity and would help maintain canal