Apart from the nerves what makes spinal injuries so difficult to heal?

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Apart from the nerves what makes spinal injuries so difficult to heal?

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Its really all in the nerves, they have an extremely poor ability to regenerate, 1-3mm/day at best, central nerves like brain and spinal cord are even less likely to hit that rate, and they often fail to reconnect. The best option for the body is to adapt around it, neuroplasticity, but that happens in the brain and not the spinal cord ( as best I know)