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    Opinion: A 3-D spinal cord atlas will improve treatment of difficult injuries

    A 3-D atlas is a missing piece of the puzzle in understanding and treating difficult spinal cord injuries.
    by Marc D. Moisi and R. Shane Tubbs and Ricardo Lockette Mar 23, 2018 3 minutes

    American football has a proud place in professional and collegiate sports, not to mention in hometown culture. Lately, the focus in football has been on concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease linked to damage caused by repetitive hits to the head. Spinal cord injuries are also a serious problem, as one of us (R.L.) learned the hard way with an injury that ended his career with the Seattle Seahawks.

    That’s why we have teamed up to help create a comprehensive three-dimensional atlas of the human , a missing piece of the puzzle that will help improve the understanding and treatment of these difficult injuries. Football, of course, isn’t the only cause of spinal cord injuries.

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