Abstract
Spinal cord injuries still remain incurable in current clinical practice. Standard therapy focuses on early decompression and stabilization of the injured spine together with prevention of a secondary injury.
On the other hand, several experimental therapies are being developed in laboratories. Some of these showed partial functional and morphological effect in laboratory animals.
Over the last 20 years, some of the experimental therapies have been applied in clinical studies but did not provide unambiguous results. In the present paper, we provide an overview of current clinical and experimental therapies of spinal cord injuries.