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Our objective was to determine whether methylprednisolone improved motor recovery among participants in the Rick Hansen Spinal Cord Injury Registry (RHSCIR).<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>We identified RHSCIR participants who received methylprednisolone according to the Second National Spinal Cord Injury Study (NASCIS-II) protocol and used propensity score matching to account for age, sex, time of neurological exam, varying neurological level of injury, and baseline severity of neurological impairment. We compared changes in total, upper extremity, and lower extremity motor scores using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and performed sensitivity analyses using negative binomial regression.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    Forty-six patients received methylprednisolone and 1555 received no steroid treatment. There were no significant differences between matched participants for each of total (13.7 vs. 14.1, respectively;\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    =0.43), upper extremity (7.3 vs. 6.4;\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    =0.38), and lower extremity (6.5 vs. 7.7;\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    =0.40) motor recovery. This result was confirmed using a multivariate model and, as predicted, only cervical (C1\u2013T1) rather than thoracolumbar (T2\u2013L3) injury levels (\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt;0.01) and reduced baseline injury severity (American Spinal Injury Association [ASIA] Impairment Scale grades;\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt;0.01) were associated with greater motor score recovery. There was no in-hospital mortality in either group; however, the NASCIS-II methylprednisolone group had a significantly higher rate of total complications (61% vs. 36%;\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    =0.02)\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>NASCIS-II methylprednisolone did not improve motor score recovery in RHSCIR patients with acute TSCIs in either the cervical or thoracic spine when the influence of anatomical level and severity of injury were included in the analysis. There was a significantly higher rate of total complications in the NASCIS-II methylprednisolone group. 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