Some of these patients may need a Spine Surgery to fix these fractures. This may be done using plates or rods and screws made of Titanium. Some of these fractures can be fixed using Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (MISS).
Patients with paralysis almost always require a Spine Surgery to decompress the spinal cord and to fix their neck or back. If the paralysis is incomplete to start with, one can hope for the paralysis to improve over a period of 3 months to 1 year.
If the paralysis is complete at the time of injury it may never recover. The aim of surgery in patients with complete paralysis, is to facilitate their nursing care; prevent bed sores and pneumonia; and mobilize them at the earliest on a wheel chair. Unfortunately, ongoing research from all over the world is yet to find an effective treatment by which patients with complete paralysis can be made to walk again.
WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND AGAINST THE USE OF STEM CELLS IN PATIENTS WITH PARALYSIS (FROM SPINAL CORD INJURY) AS THERE IS NO PROOF OF THEIR EFFECTIVENESS.