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Injury morphology was abstracted from operative and radiological records and classified, according to the AOSpine framework, as compression\/burst-type injury (type A) or translational injury (type C); a small number of chronic injuries were analyzed separately. Neurological status was assessed using the AIS at admission and discharge. AIS grades were coded ordinally from A = 1 to E = 5, and neurological recovery was defined as the change in AIS grade between admission and discharge. Associations were evaluated using Spearman\u2019s correlation, the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, the Kruskal\u2013Wallis test, and Fisher\u2019s exact test, with statistical significance set at a two-sided \u03b1 of 0.05.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The mean age was 36.3 \u00b1 14.0 years (70% of males); the thoracolumbar junction (T11\u2013L2) was involved in 37 (74%) patients. Burst-type injuries predominated (43\/50, 86%); 5 (10%) patients had translational injuries. All five translational injuries presented as complete (AIS A) and none improved, whereas burst-type injuries spanned the full AIS range and improved in 19\/43 (44%). Overall, 20\/50 patients (40%) improved by \u2265\u22651 grade, and none deteriorated. Recovery was strongly determined by admission completeness (incomplete [B\u2013D] 75% vs. complete [A] 38% vs. intact [E] 0%; Kruskal\u2013Wallis\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.001), and admission grade was very strongly correlated with discharge grade (Spearman \u03c1 =0.93,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.001). The translation-versus-burst difference in recovery did not reach significance given the small number of translational injuries (Fisher\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.14).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this surgically treated cohort, injury morphology appeared to reflect initial neurological severity rather than independently predict early recovery. Translational injuries were uniformly complete and showed no improvement, whereas burst-type injuries were heterogeneous and more frequently recovered. Admission AIS grade and injury completeness were the principal determinants of outcome, and no postoperative neurological deterioration was observed. Prospective studies with formal AOSpine subtyping and longer follow-up are warranted.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4103\/jcvjs.jcvjs_160_26","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,18]],"date-time":"2026-09-18T17:00:28Z","timestamp":1789750828000},"page":"547-552","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Predicting neurological recovery after thoracolumbar spine trauma: The role of injury morphology and admission American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale grade"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Aizul","family":"Khursheed","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Idrees","family":"Ayoub","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, 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