Fig. 2

Neurological and functional recovery throughout the surveillance period. The recovery trajectory profiles of A the motor function, B functional independence, and C walking function remained comparable across the surveillance period. In other words, the degree a person with spinal cord injury spontaneously recovers motor and walking function as well as functional independence within 1-year post-injury is the same now as it was two decades ago. The solid lines represent the fitted models and the shaded areas the standard error. The inserted boxes illustrate the robustness of the recovery profiles across all years for patients with AIS-C injuries. For all other injury severities, please refer to the supplementary material section