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Spinal Cord Injury In Detail
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The following passages were excerpted from
Standards for Neurological and Functional Classification of Spinal Cord injury, published
by the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA)
Classifications and terminology of spinal cord injury.
The spinal cord is the "highway" through which motor and sensory information travels between the brain and body. It contains spinal tracts (white matter) which...More
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1403 29th Street N.W.
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(403) 670-1110
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