**Meet the editor**

Dr. Yannis Dionyssiotis is specialized in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He holds his PhD degree in SCI-induced Osteoporosis-Metabolic Bone Diseases from the Laboratory for Research of the Musculoskeletal System (University of Athens). He worked as a consultant physiatrist and a medical director in KAT Hospital in Athens, Rhodes General Hospital and Rehabilitation

Center of Florina, Greece, and in the Klinik für neurochirourgische-neurologische Frührehabilitation, Westpfalz-Klinikum, Germany, respectively. Currently, he is the head of Rehabilitation Department of European Interbalkan Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece. He is elected in the board of International Society of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions (ISMNI), of Prevention Committee of International Spinal Cord Society (ISCOS), and has written books and papers on spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis and so on (http://publicationslist.org/y.dionyssiotis).

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Regeneration 1**

**Spinal Cord Injury 23**

Chapter 4 **Penetrating Spinal Cord Injury 67**

and Maryam Maleki

**Disorders 57** Haruo Shimazaki

Chapter 1 **Understanding Molecular Pathology along Injured Spinal Cord**

Quanico, Isabelle Fournier and Michel Salzet

Chapter 2 **Pharmacological and Nonpharmacological Therapeutic**

Chapter 3 **Spastic Paraplegias Due to Non-Traumatic Spinal Cord**

Moti M. Kramer, Asaf Acker and Nissim Ohana

Chapter 6 **Role of Gait Training in Recovery of Standing and Walking in**

Mokhtar Arazpour, Guive Sharifi, Mohammad Ebrahim Mousavi

Chapter 5 **Infectious Complications after Spinal Cord Injury 91** Farhad Abbasi and Soolmaz Korooni

**Subjects with Spinal Cord Injury 105**

Horacio Carvajal and Antonio Ibarra

**Axis: Moving Frontiers toward Effective Neuroprotection and**

Dasa Cizkova, Adriana-Natalia Murgoci, Lenka Kresakova, Katarina Vdoviakova, Milan Cizek, Tomas Smolek, Veronika Cubinkova, Jusal

**Strategies Based on the Pathophysiology of Acute and Chronic**

Elisa Garcia, Roxana Rodríguez-Barrera, Jose Mondragón-Caso,
