Mac21 Spinal Cord
Spinal Cord Injury and the effect of Morphine Marisa Mucka May 5, 2014
Intrathecal Morphine Attenuates Recovery of Function after a Spinal Cord Injury A human body endures a lot of injuries such as broken bones, cuts, heart attacks but one serious injury is “spinal cord injury” which can be a obstacle to medicine. With such injury, as a spinal cord, the recovery itself can be very painful to handle so most patients are administered pain killers to minimize the unbearable pain. Drugs in the opiate category, are used a lot for the relief of spinal cord injuries. As experiments have been conducted, they have concluded that an opiate known as a morphine can be negative to the recovery of spinal cord injury. For example, when the rats where administered high-dosage of morphine, they seemed to delay recovery function of the rat. Studies have been closely examined , to conclude such observation. The hypothesis that Hook et al. stated was that, organisms with spinal cord injury will endure negative side effects on recovery if morphine is administered. Most medical officials believe that opiates would and could reduce the pain that is transmitting throughout the body after a injury such as bad as spinal cord injury, however, many studies such as this one will in a sense prove that opiates are more damaging them helpful. Morphine, was shown to be incompetent of blocking painful stimuli and speeding up the recovery. Some effects that morphine has displayed have been results not as expected in a positive way, being the end outcome of bigger lesion size, recovery time decreased, and maybe death due to how severe the wound is and how well the body could handle it. This gives us the observed results -- conducted studies have shown that morphine will have a negative outcome to the body of the injured -- this will be the prediction for the experiment. As Hook et al. stated prior, the morphine dosage depending how high the
Intrathecal Morphine Attenuates Recovery of Function after a Spinal Cord Injury A human body endures a lot of injuries such as broken bones, cuts, heart attacks but one serious injury is “spinal cord injury” which can be a obstacle to medicine. With such injury, as a spinal cord, the recovery itself can be very painful to handle so most patients are administered pain killers to minimize the unbearable pain. Drugs in the opiate category, are used a lot for the relief of spinal cord injuries. As experiments have been conducted, they have concluded that an opiate known as a morphine can be negative to the recovery of spinal cord injury. For example, when the rats where administered high-dosage of morphine, they seemed to delay recovery function of the rat. Studies have been closely examined , to conclude such observation. The hypothesis that Hook et al. stated was that, organisms with spinal cord injury will endure negative side effects on recovery if morphine is administered. Most medical officials believe that opiates would and could reduce the pain that is transmitting throughout the body after a injury such as bad as spinal cord injury, however, many studies such as this one will in a sense prove that opiates are more damaging them helpful. Morphine, was shown to be incompetent of blocking painful stimuli and speeding up the recovery. Some effects that morphine has displayed have been results not as expected in a positive way, being the end outcome of bigger lesion size, recovery time decreased, and maybe death due to how severe the wound is and how well the body could handle it. This gives us the observed results -- conducted studies have shown that morphine will have a negative outcome to the body of the injured -- this will be the prediction for the experiment. As Hook et al. stated prior, the morphine dosage depending how high the