May I comment on some of the articles published in the last January issue of Spinal Cord. As Wyndaele1 noted in his Editor’s Page, the standard of the clinical researches which try to understand why, yet, there is no real functional regeneration of the damaged cord, improve constantly, but, alas, there is no ‘cure for paralysis’. Vikhanski2 called this enigma: ‘The Search of the Lost Cord’. Silver3 reviewed extensively the History of the Treatment of Spinal Injuries. Beyond historical background and modern scientific approaches we remain with the basic horrible unsolvable enigma, that there is no practical way to reconnect the severed billions of neurons and axons. We all stay in pray and hope.

As of now, there is no cure for nerve (or muscle cell) damage. To prevent secondary damage, steroids such as methylprednisolone can reduce the swelling and other biochemical changes that results from spinal cord injury, and Sygen, perhaps can reduce the loss of nerve function.

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