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Why is your body paralised when there is a injury in the spinal cord?
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What is a c2 spinal cord injury?
A C2 spinal cord injury is an injury to the 2nd spinal segment in the cervical section of the spinal cord.
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 the functio n of the spinal cord?
The spinal cord is a bundle of nerves, which serves the purpose of relaying sensory and motor messages between the body and brain. In the case of spinal cord injury, parts of the body are paralyzed when the motor messages from the brain cannot pass through the injury site on the spinal cord. Feeling is lost when sensory messages cannot pass the injury site to be processed by the brain.
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
What occurrs when there is damage to ventral horn of spinal cord?
the person lost motor function and his muscles paralised
Why will a c-7 spinal cord injury cause hyperventilation?
Why will a c7 spinal cord injury cause hypoventalation
What does the medical abbreviation SCI mean?
Spinal Cord InjuryIn medical terms, SCI stands for spinal cord injury.1) Science2) Spinal Cord Injuryspinal cord injury
How does the injury of the spinal cord affect a person?
well the bottom half of your body is dead
What does T7 paraplegic mean?
A paraplegic is a person who has a spinal cord injury that leaves them paralyzed from the waist down. A patient who is described as a T7-8 paraplegic has a spinal cord injury at the 7th and 8th Thoracic spinal vertebrae region of their body.
What can happen to a person with spinal cord injury?
a person with a spinal cord injury could become paralyzed or go into a coma
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 was Justin frishbergs spinal injury?
Justin's spinal injury was to his cervical spinal cord resulting in Tetraplegia.
