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If you have a fractured neck would your spinal cord be damaged?
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∙ 15y ago
Neck fracture can easily cause damage to the spinal cord, but this does not always happen, especially if the neck has been supported and immobilised quickly and properly.
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What happens when the spinal cord is damaged?
When your spinal cord is damaged you may not be able to walk
Which is worse - the pain of labor or the pain of a fractured spine?
It depends... First of all, labor pain is no joke, but the body has natural endogenous analgesic mechanisms that are especially useful after the birthing process, not the least of which is the cognitive awareness that you're through the woods. A fractured spine could be extremely painful or actually relatively painless. If, by fracturing the spine, you've also severed the spinal cord, then you have cut off ability to feel pain from that point up, as well as move anything from that point down the cord. If you have only partially damaged the spinal cord, then it would depend on which part of the cord has been damaged. If, however, you have not damaged the nociceptive (pain receptive) areas of the spinal cord or the nerves entering the spinal cord at that point in your spine, the inflammation from the injury would lead to extreme pain that would get even worse if any of those entering nerves are pinched by bone. So in the latter case, I would say the answer is a resounding: "fractured spine".
What would happen to you if the middle of your spinal cord was damaged?
you will be paralized
Are you going to die if a bone in the spinal cord is damaged?
Though everyone will die someday a damaged bone in the spinal cord is not necessarily terminal.
How might stem cells help when the spinal cord is damaged?
The stem cell uses the special regenerative cells which will help when the spinal cord is damaged.
What happens to my body if my spinal cord is damaged?
Paralyzed.
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.
What would happen if the following structures were damaged or transected 1. dorsal root of spinal nerve 2. ventral root of spinal cord 3. ventral ramus of spinal cord?
loss of both the motor and sensory functions
Why is it that you got paralyzed when your spinal cord gets damaged?
first of all we all know that the spinal cord contains the the motor alfa that is the motor neuron that causes the muscle to contract,so when the spinal cord gets damaged no stimulation arrives to the muscles below the lesion level..
How can the nerous system get hurt?
Brain damage, if your spinal cord is damaged.
What are two ways the CNS can be damaged?
Concussion and 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.
