FAQ Categories: Spinal Cord Injuries

The backbone is the number one support for your body. The bones stacked on top of each other are called vertebrae and the spinal cord runs through them. The bones help protect the spinal cord. The vertebral column is made up of 33 b ...

With a spinal cord injury (SCI) your spinal cord can be hurt any place from neck to the hips. Just like a telephone wire will stop relaying messages beyond the point it is damaged, in the same way messages from the brain stop passing beyond the injured part. The area below the injured part of the spinal cord becomes paralyzed with probable loss of sensation and movements. Depending upon the lev ...

• The main cause of a spinal injury in our country is fall from height. May it be from a tree, scaffolding, top of a building, into a well etc.
• Fall of weight over you
• Road traffic accidents
• Injuries due to violence
• Sports injuries
• Tuberculosis of the spine
• Medical and surgical accidents

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If you cannot move your legs but came move your arms like before, your spinal cord is hurt in your back (T1 and below) and you would be termed in medical language as a paraplegic. If you cannot move your legs and arms both then y ...

This would depend entirely on how hurt or damaged the nerves of your spinal cord are The prognosis differs from patient to patient. Depending upon the extent of injury, some people are able to walk normally, some use calipers to get about and some also would have to use a wheelchair. The progress is extremely stow, therefore, you need to be patient and have a lot of hope. Ask your doctor to give y ...

The doctors would be able to give you the prognosis only after 6 weeks. !t is difficult to be sure of anything before that as your spine is in a spinal shock. Only after the spinal shock wears out can a more appropriate judgment be made. ...

This movement is called spasms. This is an unexplainable symptom normally seen in the case of incomplete spinal cord injury. This is an involuntary movement so let it not confuse you. It need not mean that you would soon be walking, though it is a good sign. ...

More or less all the systems below the level of injury are affected may it be the digestive, circulatory or respiratory systems etc. But again the extent of damage depends on the level of injury and the severity of the injury. In the initial phase loss of control over bladder, bowel and pressure ulcers are the main cause of worry, anger and depressions. Later they may also come to realise about lo ...