What are the three types of spinal cord injuries?

There are three types of complete spinal cord injuries:

Tetraplegia.
Paraplegia.
Triplegia.

What are the two types of spinal cord injuries?

Most cases can be divided into two types of spinal cord injury – complete spinal cord injury vs. incomplete: A complete spinal cord injury causes permanent damage to the area of the spinal cord that is affected. Paraplegia or tetraplegia are results of complete spinal cord injuries.

What is neurogenic injury?

Neurogenic shock is a combination of both primary and secondary injuries that lead to loss of sympathetic tone and thus unopposed parasympathetic response driven by the vagus nerve. Consequently, patients suffer from instability in blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature regulation.

What is the most common spinal injury?

According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (NSCISC), the two most common types of spinal cord injuries are incomplete tetraplegia and paraplegia, with incomplete spinal cord injuries accounting for more than 65% of all SCIs.

Can you walk after a spinal cord injury?

Many factors play a role in regaining the ability to walk after a spinal cord injury. Fortunately, it is possible for many SCI survivors. There is potential to walk again after SCI because the spinal cord has the ability to reorganize itself and make adaptive changes called neuroplasticity.

What level of spinal cord injury causes neurogenic shock?

Because sympathetic innervation of the heart is associated with the T1-T5 levels of the spinal cord, neurogenic shock is most common in individuals with T6 or higher level spinal cord injuries. Individuals with cervical spinal cord injuries are more likely to experience neurogenic shock than those with thoracic SCIs.

What organs are affected by spinal cord injury?

Also known as quadriplegia, this means that your arms, hands, trunk, legs and pelvic organs are all affected by your spinal cord injury. Paraplegia. This paralysis affects all or part of the trunk, legs and pelvic organs.

Why are spinal cord injuries so serious?

The spinal cord contains the nerves that carry messages between your brain and the rest of the body. The cord passes through your neck and back. A spinal cord injury is very serious because it can cause loss of movement (paralysis), function, and sensation below the site of the injury.

Can a spinal cord injury heal itself?

Unlike other parts of your body, the spinal cord does not have the ability to repair itself if it is damaged. A spinal cord injury occurs when there is damage to the spinal cord either from trauma, loss of its normal blood supply, or compression from tumor or infection.

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