June 16‚ 2014 A Case of Spinal Cord Injury 1. Describe the functional anatomy of the spinal cord using the following terms: white matter‚ gray matter‚ tracts‚ roots and spinal nerves. The spinal cord consists of a superficial White matter and a deep Gray matter. The white matter consists of myelinated axons‚ which form nerve tracts and the Gray matter consists of neuron cell bodies‚ dendrites and axons. The white matter in each half of the spinal cord is organized into ventral‚ dorsal
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Causes of Spinal Cord Injuries Dr. April 30‚ 2014 By Elisa Vigil Prevention and Care of Athletic Injuries The causes of a spinal cord injuries result from damage to the vertebrae‚ ligaments or disks of the spinal column or to the spinal cord itself. Traumatic spinal cord injury may come from a sudden‚ traumatic blow to your spine that fractures‚ dislocates‚ crushes or compresses one or more of your vertebrae. Another cause of this can be from a gunshot or knife wound that
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Spinal cord injury happens when an acute traumatic damage to the a certain area or the complete spinal cord (including the intervertebral disc joints) or nerves roots within the spinal column occurs. This type of injury can cause stretching‚ bruising‚ pressure‚ severing and laceration. The cauda equina is a bundle of spinal nerves and spinal nerve roots‚ that can be damaged as well and results in temporary or permanent
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and the person involved has sustained a spinal cord injury. Paramedics are rushing the patient to the nearest hospital‚ and they are trying to keep the patient stable. The patient is alert and appears to have some movement of the upper extremities. They are not sure of the exact level of spinal cord injury just yet. The patient listens to the paramedics talking and starts to ask questions about the signs and symptoms‚ etiology‚ statistics of a spinal cord injury‚ the pathology and physiology‚ the
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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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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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Jenna Forrest Gayle McDonald KIN426 March 1‚ 2012 Spinal Cord Injuries in Adapted Physical Education Imagine what a class of third graders would look like during their PE class at school. You might see one child outrunning all of the rest in a 50-yard dash‚ or maybe a group of children partaking in a game of hopscotch. But what about the child in a wheelchair who suffers from a spinal cord injury? Approximately 25% of children in the public school system suffer from orthopedic impairments
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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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Print Form Spinal Cord‚ Spinal Nerves‚ and the Autonomic Nervous System Anatomy of the Spinal Cord 1. Match each anatomical term in the key to the descriptions given below. Key: a. D C B A cauda equina 1. 2. 3. 4. b. conus medullaris c. filum terminale d. foramen magnum most superior boundary of the spinal cord meningeal extension beyond the spinal cord terminus spinal cord terminus collection of spinal nerves traveling in the vertebral canal below the terminus of the spinal cord 2. Match
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