Prevention of Imminent Paralysis Following Spinal Cord Trauma or Ischemia by Minocycline: A Multi-center Study in Israel With IDF Primary Care Involvement

Inclusion Criteria

• •Trauma patients with incomplete spinal cord syndromes related to fractures, dislocations, blunt trauma (central cord syndrome).
• •2. Patients with incomplete spinal cord syndromes related to fractures, dislocations, blunt trauma (central cord syndrome).
• •3. Ages: 18 to 65
• •4. Males - including those involved in active military duty.
• •5. Females - of child-bearing potential who have a negative pregnancy test (hCG urine) within 72 hours of informed consent. Pregnant women will be excluded from the study.
• •1\. Intrathecal extramedullary tumors, vertebral metastases or primary vertebral tumors causing cord compression with or without incomplete cord syndrome.