NVIV: I would not underestimate the patient benefit and care giver benefit to gaining bowl and bladder control. It's huge if you know anyone with AIS-B vs AIS -A.Good point, and for those unfamiliar with the huge long-term challenges for SCI patients, just the reduction in skin breakdown because of chronic incontinence (and all the infection complications that go with it) will be huge.
Quite frankly, if I had an SCI I would be asking for a neurosurgeon willing to use both methods, repeatedly over time, to address my paraplegia.
Best (and I have NVIV on my watch list now thanks to this thread),
aj