Ren Shou Song, Department of Spine Surgery, Jimo People’s Hospital: If the spinal cord injury is rescued in time and the surgery is proper, there will be different degrees of recovery. Otherwise, the use of any means is futile. Recovery is related to whether the treatment is appropriate, but not necessarily related. To a large extent, it is more related to the severity of the spinal cord injury. For example (an extreme example), if the spinal cord is completely severed, no treatment is likely to be effective. Acupuncture has some effect in the later stages of rehabilitation, but the effect is not a restoration of spinal cord function, but rather an “awakening” of sleeping muscles and other effector organs. Massage can improve the stiffness of the limbs and promote blood circulation, which is a necessary rehabilitation tool, but it does not promote the recovery of spinal cord function either. The harsh truth is that spinal cord injury is irreversible (central nervous system damage cannot be regenerated), and this is a worldwide problem. Cord blood stem cell transplantation has some effect in promoting spinal cord function recovery, but it is expensive and not widely used and accepted clinically. If the functional recovery is more satisfactory, it must be that the spinal cord injury is relatively mild. Therefore, for the efficacy after the surgery is unattainable. The time for recovery of spinal cord function is generally 3 months to 6 months. Beyond that time, there is not much room for continued improvement. The rehabilitation process is very long, and it will take years or even a decade to adapt to your physical condition, combine it with rehabilitation therapy, maximize your physical function, integrate into society, become self-reliant, or minimize your dependence on others.