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New medical research has discovered that surgery carried out on patients almost immediately after spinal injury seems to aid recovery when checked a year later, it has been announced.
The encouraging finding indicates that decompression surgery for patients with back injuries has more chance of better success within a day (24 hours) of the injury happening.
Surgically removing tiny pieces of bone or damaged tissue that are being squeezed in the spinal cord is called "decompression".
It is this decompression surgery which, when carried out within a day of receiving the personal injury, has been found to aid recovery for patients.
Leading Toronto medic, Dr Michael Fehlings, who led the research, said, "Initial results suggest that decompression within 24 hours of injury may be associated with improved neurological recovery at one-year follow-up."
But he said more patients must be studied to prove these initial findings. His team's report investigated 170 spinal injury patients.
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