**Preface XI**

Chapter 1 **Understanding Molecular Pathology along Injured Spinal Cord Axis: Moving Frontiers toward Effective Neuroprotection and Regeneration 1** Dasa Cizkova, Adriana-Natalia Murgoci, Lenka Kresakova, Katarina Vdoviakova, Milan Cizek, Tomas Smolek, Veronika Cubinkova, Jusal Quanico, Isabelle Fournier and Michel Salzet Chapter 2 **Pharmacological and Nonpharmacological Therapeutic Strategies Based on the Pathophysiology of Acute and Chronic Spinal Cord Injury 23** Elisa Garcia, Roxana Rodríguez-Barrera, Jose Mondragón-Caso, Horacio Carvajal and Antonio Ibarra Chapter 3 **Spastic Paraplegias Due to Non-Traumatic Spinal Cord Disorders 57** Haruo Shimazaki Chapter 4 **Penetrating Spinal Cord Injury 67** Moti M. Kramer, Asaf Acker and Nissim Ohana Chapter 5 **Infectious Complications after Spinal Cord Injury 91** Farhad Abbasi and Soolmaz Korooni

Chapter 6 **Role of Gait Training in Recovery of Standing and Walking in Subjects with Spinal Cord Injury 105** Mokhtar Arazpour, Guive Sharifi, Mohammad Ebrahim Mousavi and Maryam Maleki
