Does anyone know any thing about spinal injury?
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I had surgery to correct mine. I lost my balance, falling, numbness and pain in hands and feet, etc. I also had bladder problems from it effecting my nerves (that cleared after surgery) The next day I was able to walk a little better (and much better with therapy afterwords.) The pain and most of the numbness were gone as soon as I awoke from surgery. I felt no pain from the surgery. Mine was the c3 and C4 mainly. If you let it go (like I did), it can lead to other problems like breathing and swallowing. Mine did not go that far. thank Goodness.
Christopher Reeves (Superman) had breathing problems and paralyzed due to injury in those areas. Mine was from a disk laying on my spinal cord.
I suggest going to your regular doctor and have an MRI done (More inclusive) and refer you to a neurosurgeon.
well, alli know is that i can wreck a persons life. i guess if ur hit in the wrong spot u could be paralized?
There a couple of different types of spinal injuries. One is where you don't actually disconnect any part of the spinal cord but you sustained an injury hard enough to cause bruising around the area. As with all bruising there is swelling. This swelling can apply pressure to the nerves. If the swelling causes so much pressure for a long enough time the swelling can permanently damage the nerves. If the swelling receeds quick enough or wasn't to bad, the nerves can recover and work again. Any nerve on the inside of the spine or in the head that is killed or severed will not grow back and is gone forever. A spinal injury where the nerve is cut or severed is permanent. There all all sorts of levels of injuries from losing the sense of temperature, to losing the ability to know where your body extremities are ( i.e. someone could lift your arm and you have no idea it was moved away from your side). Loss of pain sensation, loss of movement. Cervical injuries are the worse because the closer to the brain the more nerves there are to injure. As you go down the spine the nerves start to exit the spinal cord and become fewer in the spinal canal itself. You can lose the ability to breathe on your own if the injury is too high. Nerves, once they exit, the spinal cord have the ability to regenerate. Which is why after say someone cuts a nerve in their arm with a chain saw, the nerve can be put back together and will eventually return to normal.
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