A method of administering one or multiple medications to human patients with CNS injury through oral or parenteral (including transdermal, intravenous, subcutaneous, intramuscular) routes. Inflammatory and immunological processes have been shown to cause secondary damage to CNS tissues in individuals with acute CNS injury. The present invention administers one or more of the following medications, which have properties that mitigate the inflammatory and immunological processes that lead to secondary CNS damage, via trans-dermal absorption: a statin compound (e.g., a HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor), a progesterone compound, or a cholinesterase inhibiting compound, among others, either alone or in combination with other compounds.
