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Cleveland Spinal Injury Attorney: New Study Sheds Light on Why Injuries Worsen After Accident

It’s a phenomenon we see all the time as spinal injury attorneys in Cleveland. The real damage caused by a spinal injury often occurs long after the original injury.

A new study could shed some light on why.

Science Daily reports:

“Yi Ren, a professor of biomedical sciences at the Florida State University College of Medicine, is making progress in understanding why such significant harm is inflicted in the weeks and months after a spinal injury. In a study published today in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Ren explained how a natural immune system response may contribute to additional injury.”

After an injury, endothelial cells that line blood vessels are activated to remove potentially harmful material, like myelin debris, from the site of the injury. But researchers suspect this process may also contribute to further damage after the incident.

“The consequences of the effort of endothelial cells to clear myelin debris is often severe, contributing to post-traumatic degeneration of the spinal cord and to the functional disabilities often associated with spinal cord injuries,” said Ren, whose team conducted the study over a period of five years.

An Optimistic Prognosis

As science and doctors better understand how these mechanisms work, more might be done to help spinal injury victims recover functioning to lead fuller lives. And that is certainly promising news for the clients of a spinal injury attorney in Cleveland.