SCI Regeneration MapWhat the world knows about repairing the injured spinal cord

Seven directions of research

A subject this map covers

Early surgical decompression

A list of codes kept in this browser. No name, no medical answer and no account — nothing personal is stored and nothing is registered.

Part of: Neuroprotection

What belongs here

When and how pressure is taken off the cord after injury, dural expansion included.

What does not belong here, however close it looks

Elective decompression for degenerative stenosis without acute injury does not belong here.

What has been looked at

Counted from what the sources catalogue, not from reading the work. It says how much exists and over what span of years — never what any of it found.

  • Registered or indexed as work in people: 4070 records · 1952–2026
  • Indexed as work in animals: 435 records · 1964–2026
  • Indexed as laboratory work: 10 records · 1987–2014
  • The source has not said who or what was studied: 198 records · 1965–2026
  • Nobody has yet checked any of this against its original for this map, so none of it is on the checked shelf.

Checked

Records a person has read against the original and published into this map. These carry measurements, evidence states and a place on the ladder.

Nobody has checked a record on this subject yet.

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Found in the scientific sources, not yet checked

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4713 records

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Registered or indexed as work in people

Where this was looked for, and when

The exact question each source was asked, the day it was asked, and what came back. A zero on this page is only honest if these are on it.

ClinicalTrials.govasked, and it has nothingasked on 2026-09-29the source found 0 · this programme has 7 · still to fetch 0aim: every record matching this question
Crossrefasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-09-16the source found 1657846 · this programme has 50aim: a sample of the most relevant records. This source ranks a bag of words, so its own total is the size of the corpus that shares some of them, never a set still owed.
PubMedasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-10-12the source found 6 · this programme has 4692 · still to fetch 0aim: every record matching this question
The question asked
  • ClinicalTrials.gov("surgical decompression" OR "timing of decompression" OR "expansive duraplasty")
  • Crossrefspinal cord injury surgical decompression timing of decompression
  • PubMed("Spinal Cord Injuries"[MeSH Terms] OR "spinal cord injury"[Title/Abstract] OR "spinal cord injuries"[Title/Abstract] OR "spinal cord trauma"[Title/Abstract]) AND ("Decompression, Surgical"[MeSH Terms] OR "surgical decompression"[Title/Abstract] OR "timing of decompression"[Title/Abstract] OR "expansive duraplasty"[Title/Abstract])

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