Functional recovery from spinal cord trauma following dexamethazone and chlorpromazine therapy in dogs.

The spinal cords of 20 normal dogs were exposed via dorsal laminectomies and damaged with a known impact force. Ten dogs were treated with dexamethazone and 10 dogs with chlorpromazine for five days after surgery. The results showed that neither drug had a significantly beneficial effect on the functional recovery of the spinal cords, when compared to a control group of similarly traumatised dogs.