FIG. 3.

Box and Whiskers plots of hindlimb functional recovery after surgical decompression in dogs with clinical spinal cord injury, as measured by the Open Field Score (OFS). The upper and lower limits of the boxes represent the 25% and 75% quartiles, with the median transecting the box. The whiskers represent the maximum and minimum values and the circular point represents the mean. (A) Dogs with complete injuries show an incomplete recovery of ambulation, plateauing by 3 months after injury. (B) Dogs with incomplete injuries show robust recovery within two weeks. (C) In spite of motor recovery, dogs with incomplete injuries show an incomplete recovery of forelimb-hindlimb coordination quantified using the regularity index to express the number of steps occurring in a normal step cycle sequence. A score of 12 indicates “normal” using the OFS and normal dogs score 100 on the regularity index assessing forelimb-hindlimb coordination.