Running head: SPINAL CORD INJURY Spinal Cord Injury Shannon G. Johnston‚ RN‚ CEN Liberty University Abstract There are many types of spinal cord injuries (SCI). Patients with SCI can symptoms that range from mild neurologic impairment (such as numbness and tingling of extremities or neck pain) to devastating total body paralysis depending on the extent of damage and where in the spinal cord the damage occurs. Management of airway‚ breathing and circulation are key with SCI patients‚ as
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Spinal cord injuries If the spinal cord is damaged in an accident‚ the sections below the injury will be cut off from the circuit of information to and from your brain. This means‚ all nerves - and all body parts - linked to these areas of the spinal cord will also be disconnected from your brain and will stop functioning. Well protected To minimise the risk of such an injury‚ your spinal cord is well protected: Three tough envelopes called meninges surround your spinal cord A clear fluid‚ that
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Spinal Cord Injury * Short Case Study #3 1. Describe the functional anatomy of the spinal cord using the following terms: white matter‚ gray matter‚ tracts‚ roots‚ and spinal nerves. * White matter is one of the two components of the central nervous system‚ and it consists of glial cells and myelinated axons that transmit signals from one region of the cerebrum to another as well as in between the cerebrum and lower brain centers. Grey matter contains neural cell bodies. Unlike
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traumatic spinal cord injuries in their lifetimes that leave them paralyzed. Many people wonder if these spinal cord injuries are reversible‚ and hope to someday walk again. Although the complete reversal of paralysis is in the minority viewpoint‚ encouragement by others in similar situations has been shown to help motivate paraplegics to maintain a rehabilitation process. There are many researches about the restoration of spinal cord injuries to give hope to those affected by spinal cord injuries
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SPINAL CORD INJURY CASE STUDY 2 Abstract This spinal cord injury case is about my 50 year old brother named Kevin that fell off our mother’s roof and fractured his vertebra at the T5-T9 level. He is now a paraplegic that has come to live with my family. What is his functional level to this day? What are the capabilities and functional limitations
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Spinal Cord Injury Report: Complete Paraplegia of Frances F. Introduction: The spinal cord is an important structure for the communication between the body and the brain since it containing the spinal nerves that are in charge of the motor and sensory pathways. Therefore‚ a spinal cord injury (SCI) can affect the pathways of these motor and sensory signals depending on the location of the lesion (Kirshblum‚ Burns‚ Biering-Sorensen‚ Donovan‚ Graves‚ Jha‚ & Waring‚ 2011). A 38-year-old female patient
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Absence of Local Sign Withdrawal in Chronic Human Spinal Cord Injury Spinal cord • Main pathway of communication between the brain and the rest of the body. • Soft tube-like structure of nerves that extends downward from the base of the brain. • Protected by the bones of spinal column. - Nerves enter and exits from the spinal cord through its length‚ passing through small openings between each vertebra. • It is highly organized. - Anterior motor neuron
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1007/s12264-013-1359-2 1 ·Review· Combination treatment with chondroitinase ABC in spinal cord injury—breaking the barrier Rong-Rong Zhao‚ James W Fawcett Brain Repair Centre‚ University of Cambridge‚ UK Corresponding author: James W Fawcett. E-mail: jf108@cam.ac.uk © Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences‚ CAS and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 After spinal cord injury (SCI)‚ re-establishing functional circuitry in the damaged central
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OF SPINAL CORD INJURY RESEARCH. IT ACTED AS AN INTRODUCTION TO MY PERSUASIVE SPEECH ON THE BENEFITS OF STEM CELL RESEARCH) There are about a quarter of a million people in the United States living with spinal cord injuries. In addition‚ between 7‚600 and 10‚000 new injuries occur each year. Nearly half of these new injuries will occur in young people between the ages of 16 and 30. As a person in this category‚ I have become very interested in the research to find a cure for spinal cord injuries
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The purpose of this paper is to take an in depth look into current research and statistics related to Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI). It includes a description of the condition; with national and global statistics‚ predisposing factors‚ a description of signs and symptoms‚ and diagnostic testing. Treatment of SCI and nursing care including; medical or surgical treatments related to the care‚ any therapies‚ and most common medications prescribed to treat SCI. The complications of SCI and how they influence
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