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Why are spinal cord injuries so serious?
Spinal cord injuries are serious because if they aren't treated correctly, they can leave someone paralyzed. The spine injury is one of the worst types of innjury because there is a very big possibily that you will never be able to walk again, as said earlier.
Why will a c-7 spinal cord injury cause hyperventilation?
Why will a c7 spinal cord injury cause hypoventalation
Explain how a servere injury to the spinal cord can affect other parts of the body?
Nerve impulses pass from the brain down the spinal cord to other parts of your body. Damage the spinal cord, and parts of the body below the injury may be paralyzed. Injure the spinal cord at the neck, you may not be able to breathe, and you will die.
What is a cause of flaccid muscles?
spinal cord injury
How people become paralyzed?
Usually due to a traumatic spinal injury. Spinal injuries can damage the spinal cord (the bit that is usually protected by being encased in the vertebrae of the spine), which means that nerve impulses become unable to flow. This can result in loss of sensation, and paralysis. However muscle wasting diseases can also cause paralysis (but not usually loss of sensation).
What vertebra is least likely to cause a spinal cord injury if fracture?
L4
Can a viral infection of the spinal cord cause paralysis?
yes it can, paralysis will appear with any type of spinal cord injury
How severe would a spinal cord injury be to cause brain swelling?
I think in the back and the neck because that is were our spinal card is OK
What is the most common cause of paraplegia?
Paraplegia occurs after injury to the lower spinal cord
Can pain shots in the lower back cause you to go paralyzed for 6 days from the waist down?
Assuming you're referring to an epidural steroid injection, I suppose it is possible, although very unlikely, to suffer an ischemic spinal cord injury that would be reversible with spontaneous reperfusion.
What is the lowest level on the spinal cord that an injury could cause diaphragmatic impairment or paralysis?
T 12
Can scoliosis cause paralysis?
If the scoliosis is so severe that there is injury to the spinal cord, paralysis could result.
