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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
An individual affected with paraplegia is referred to as?
An individual affected with paraplegia is referred to as a paraplegic. It is a condition characterized by paralysis or weakness in the lower half of the body, typically caused by spinal cord injury or disease.
What body systems are affected by other body systems?
Every body system is affected by every other body system.
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 are signs of spinal damage?
Loss of sensation and/or mobility in the body below the point of 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.
Which body systems are affected by encephalitis?
The brain
What body systems are affected by muscular dystrophy?
The body systems that are affected by muscular dystrophy include the nervous system and the musculoskeletal system. Many organs are also affected by this genetic disorder.
What does T7-8 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 systems in the body are affected by achondroplasia?
the skeletal system
