Table 1 Distribution of the American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale (AIS) and the Neurological Level of Injury (NLI) for the early (11.8 ± 7.6 days after injury) and the late (357.1 ± 53.7 days after injury) time window for all 665 included individuals.
Acute assessment | Chronic assessment | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AIS | AIS % | NLI | NLI % | AIS | AIS % | NLI | NLI % |
A | 46.0 | C1–C4 | 11.6 | A | 34.9 | C1–C4 | 6.9 |
C5–C8 | 7.2 | C5–C8 | 4.4 | ||||
T1–S5 | 27.2 | T1–S5 | 23.6 | ||||
B | 11.3 | C1–C4 | 3.2 | B | 8.4 | C1–C4 | 1.4 |
C5–C8 | 3.0 | C5–C8 | 3.5 | ||||
T1–S5 | 5.1 | T1–S5 | 3.6 | ||||
C | 17.5 | C1–C4 | 7.1 | C | 8.9 | C1–C4 | 1.5 |
C5–C8 | 3.3 | C5–C8 | 2.3 | ||||
T1–S5 | 7.1 | T1–S5 | 5.1 | ||||
D | 25.3 | all levels | D | 46.3 | all levels | ||
E | 0.0 | all levels | E | 1.5 | all levels | ||
