Abstract
Spinal cord injury has an incidence of 40 new cases per million inhabitants, the most
affected regions being the cervical and lumbar spine. In cervical injuries, the function
most challenging to recover is control of the hand. Still, when the injury is above
C5, the tendon surgical options are minimal, so nerve transfer is the remaining surgical
option. Determining which transfer is going to be useful and when to do it is the
point of discussion. More and more progress is being made in this line, as well as
in the combination of tendon and nervous treatment.
Keywords
Upper Cervical Injury - nerve transfer - therapeutics
