Abstract
It was estimated that 2.5 million people have spinal cord injury, which more than 130,000 new injuries reported each year. These patients have serious complications. To date, there are not any available definite and reliable clinical treatments for spinal cord injury to restores the injury-induced loss of function to reach a degree that an independent life can be guaranteed. In the last decade, with the emerging of nanotechnology, nanomaterials such as nanowires, nanofibers, nanoparticles, liposomes, and carbon-based nanomaterials were offered for effective treatments of spinal cord injury. The use of nanotechnology offers promising future perspectives for spinal cord injury treatment. This article reviews the recent applications of the most widely used nanomaterials such as nanowire, nanofiber, graphene and nanotube for SCI treatment.