Demographic and clinical characteristics of subjects.

Abbreviations: NLI = Neurological Level of Injury; AO = AO-Classification; AIS = ASIA (American Spinal Injury Association) Impairment Scale; Paralysis: cP = complete Paraplegia, iC = incomplete Paraplegia, cT = complete Tetraplegia, iT = incomplete Tetraplegia; GCS = Glasgow Coma Scale. Age is expressed as mean years ± standard deviation. Neurological remission was defined as improvement in AIS. Four patients had posttraumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) without vertebral fractures.