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Can scoliosis cause paralysis?
If the scoliosis is so severe that there is injury to the spinal cord, paralysis could result.
Can a viral infection of the spinal cord cause paralysis?
yes it can, paralysis will appear with any type of spinal cord injury
What is the medical name for Spinal-cord injury?
The medical name for a spinal cord injury is Quadriplegia or Tetraplegia if the cord is damaged in the cervical (neck) region. If the spinal cord is damaged in the Thoracic area or lower, then the paralysis is refered to as Paraplegia. Also, injuries to the Lumbar and Sacral nerves which result in paralysis, are refered to as Cauda Equina Syndrome.
What is the possible effect of a spinal cord injury?
Possible paralysis
Why might an injury to the spinal cord result in paralysis?
The nervous system would not have a path through which to send messages to the brain.
What is the paralysis of the lower extremities due to a severe spinal cord injury?
Paraplegia - (paralysis of the lower extremities) is cuased by severe injury to the spinal cord in the thoracic or lumbar region, resulting in loss of sensory and motor control below the level of the injury.
Why you should protect your spinal cord?
You should protect your spinal cord because even the slightest amount of damage can result in paralysis. Unlike most other parts of the body, it is unable to completely heal after an injury.
What is a traumatic injury to the neck and spinal cord can result in?
A spinal cord injury can result in a loss of sensation and/or loss of function below the area of spinal cord injury. The degree to which the body is affected, will depend how high up the spinal cord the injury occurs. If the injury is in the neck, cervical region, then the arms will also be affected, resulting in Quadriplegia. More information on the different types of spinal cord injury can be found here: http://www.apparelyzed.com/paralysis.html
Which would be the more likely result of injury to the posterior side of the spinal cord only-paralysis or paresthesia?
This type of injury may leave the person with good muscle power, pain and temperature sensation, however they may experience difficulty in coordinating movement of their limbs.
Incomplete spinal cord injury?
An incomplete spinal cord injury happens when only part of the spinal cord is damaged. This will result in a variety of residual muscle control, sensation or both.
Spinal cord infarction?
Spinal cord infarction means that there was some damage to the spinal cord, or the blood supply to the spinal cord, which caused cell death there. Depending on severity and level, this could result in paralysis for the patient.
Can you get paralyzed by a sneeze?
It would be very very very unlikely that someone could end up paralyzed by sneezing. Paralysis is typically the result of spinal cord damage, sometimes the result of brain injury. However it would be incredibly difficult to achieve either spinal cord damage or a brain injury via sneezing.
