Abstract Overmedication is a common problem generally associated with the aging population suffering typically of one or several chronic diseases. However, side effects, drug interactions and excessive use of multiple drug treatments have recently been shown to be an important issue also in patients suffering a chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) or, more generally, by people with significant mobility problems. Overmedication is undoubtedly an underrated problem associated with aging and other chronic conditions such as SCI and related debilitating diseases. Many of those symptomatic drugs prescribed to SCI patients could potentially be avoided or their doses significantly reduce if those patients were capable of being engaged regularly into metabolically challenging workouts on a treadmill. Indeed, regular exercising is well-known to improve general health and vital functions that are typically impaired after paralysis. Consequently, if SpinalonTM were to be approved by authorities, pending upon results from the phase II/III trials, it may become a relatively simple holistic approach against overmedication in patients with SCI.
Keywords: overmedication; spinal injuries; CNS drug