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Complications that occur after a spinal injury are usually studied and treated during rehabilitation, but scientists in America are now looking at the complications right after injury occurs.

Intermountain Medical Center and the James J Peters VA Medical Center in New York City aim to pinpoint the way and speed in which various systems deteriorate, with the hope of developing these changes before rehabilitation begins, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

Speaking to the newspaper, Mark Stevens, trauma services medical director at the Murray hospital, said: "Right now, it's more that we support body systems until they get to rehab.

"What we hope is that these studies would lead to interventions to treat those changes."

Mr Stevens and colleagues hope to test the organs of spinal injury victims within three days of their injury, according to the newspaper.

A study published in the most recent edition of the journal Neuron found that deleting a suppressor called SOCS3 results in the re-activation of a growth pathway and the growth of nerve fibres, which are commonly damaged in spinal cord injuries.

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