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Questions about Spinal Cord Anatomy
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What is the spinal cord?
What is Spinal Cord Injury?
What is the spinal cord and the vertebra?
Why is my spinal cord important?
What's the difference between a paraplegic and a quadriplegic?
What is Paraplegia and Quadriplegia?
What is spinal cord injury?
How does spinal cord injury affect the skin?
What happens to the bladder, bowel, and sexual function?
How is spinal cord injury classified?
When the cord is bruised, are the A- cells killed B- cells demylinated C- axons destroyed D- combinations/ all three or does it depend on the injury.
What is a Stem Cell?
What is the phrenic nerve and where is it situated?
What are the levels of Spinal Cord Injury?
What is spasticity and neuropathic pain?
How many patients are injured each year at a particular neurologic level?
What does the spinal cord look like and what does it do?
What are general medical concerns with SCI?
What is Autonomic Dysreflexia?
If the scar forms around the outside (from a bruise), why do the nerves and axons have to grow throught it? I could see if the bruise went across the cord, but what about in a bruise?
Pulmonary, bladder, and skin care?
Why can't the nerves above the injury reconnect w/ nerves below the injury? Why do they have to grow all the way down?
What happens below the injury? DO the nerve cells stay alive, do they die over time, or are they still connected with each other, just not with the brain.
Is the only difference between acute and chronic the scar? What else happens to the cord after the acute stage? Also, how long does the "acute" stage last? 2 weeks? couple days? 1 month?
When the cord is injured, it is the pressure on the cord that causes the injury (unless it is bad, and the cord gets cut. Is this true? Is one worse or better than the other, or does it depend?
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