Q: What is the current status of spinal cord injury? A: Spinal cord injury refers to trauma to the spinal cord caused by external direct or indirect factors, and various motor, sensory and autonomic dysfunctions occur in the corresponding segments and lower planes of the damage, which are characterized by high disability rate, high mortality rate and difficulty in treatment. Epidemiological studies show that there are currently more than 2,500,000 patients worldwide suffering from the sequelae of spinal cord injury. In China, there are about 60,000 new cases each year, and the majority of patients are young and middle-aged people aged 30-40. Spinal cord injury is a heavy burden on the patient’s family and society because of the long hospital stay, high cost and many complications. Q: What are the hazards caused by spinal cord injury? A: Spinal cord injury is divided into complete and incomplete. After complete injury, all functions below the injury plane are lost, and the higher the injury plane, the more severe the symptoms. In particular, the prognosis for patients with high cervical cord injury is the worst, it leads to respiratory paralysis and can lead to rapid death. Incomplete injury can also cause some serious consequences, such as abnormalities in defecation, urination, and sexual function caused by autonomic dysfunction; pneumonia and respiratory distress caused by respiratory system involvement, and severe spinal cord injury can also be combined with a variety of complex complications. Spinal cord injury not only causes physical disability, making many patients lose the ability to live on their own, but also forms a heavy blow to the patient’s psyche, seriously affecting the physical and mental health of the patient. Q: What is the best time window for spinal cord injury treatment? A: It is within one month after the injury. Many spinal cord injuries recover faster and some patients can reach the goal of moving to the ground when they use my set of treatment plans within one month after the injury. My method, which I call “trinity” therapy, includes Western medicine, Chinese herbal medicine and physical therapy, with Western medicine providing nutrients, Chinese herbal medicine regulating the internal organs, and physical therapy promoting synaptic growth of nerve cells. With early treatment, many patients with ASIA grade A can gradually improve to grade C, D, or even E. Q: I heard that nerve cells cannot regenerate after damage, so how does it restore this function after spinal cord injury? A: It is true that nerve cells can hardly regenerate after damage, but after spinal cord injury, even if it is a complete injury, there are still remaining normal cells surviving, and these surviving nerve cells can grow many tentacles, and these tentacles can be regenerated. This is equivalent to reconnecting the broken wires and reconstructing the network, so that spinal cord function will be slowly restored. Traditional physical therapy, such as acupuncture and massage, has very little effect on stimulating synaptic regeneration of nerve cells, and is less effective. Q: Do you have any successful cases of treating spinal cord injury? A: There are many such cases, such as the very common young girl who was paralyzed by dancing and lowering her back. I have treated many of them, and some of them can walk on the ground within 1-2 months after they came to me for treatment, but some of them with serious injuries are still under treatment, and their recovery is very slow. Although my method is also effective, the treatment time is longer. Therefore, I would also like to remind parents to avoid practicing lower back movements when practicing dancing, which is a risk of paralysis. Many doctors in hospitals do not understand this disease, some say it is a vascular malformation in the spinal cord, some diagnose it as myelitis, in fact, the correct name should be non-fracture dislocation type spinal cord injury. Early treatment of this disease is more effective, but over time, the damaged spinal cord will grow scars, making it difficult for the remaining nerve cells to cross the synapses, and this will affect the effectiveness of treatment. I would like to remind all patients here that they must find a doctor who can treat spinal cord injury when treating spinal cord tumor. Once the spinal cord tumor is paralyzed or urinary or fecal disorder after surgery, it is necessary to have the treating doctor to treat it, otherwise it will be difficult to treat if the best treatment time is missed.