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SCI Classification - Classification of Spinal Cord Injuries

Doctors who treat spinal cord injury use a method of classification that describes how much damage has been done. SCI classification helps to anticipate the amount of movement and sensation that can be recovered.
SCI - Complete Spinal Cord Injury
To express how much sensory and motor function is lost after a spinal cord injury, doctors use the terms complete and incomplete. What does is mean to have a complete spinal cord injury?
SCI - Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury
To express how much sensory and motor function is lost after a spinal cord injury, doctors use the terms complete and incomplete. What does is mean to have an incomplete spinal cord injury?

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