.Primary spinal cord injury involves damage to vertebral or neural tissues from compression, traction, or shearing forces. Secondary spinal cord injury is related to ischemia, excitotoxicity, inflammation, edema, oxidative damage, and activation of necrotic and apoptotic cell death; it begins within minutes after injury and continues for weeks.
Please describe an example of both a primary and secondary spinal cord injury. and describe how the patient experienced both primary and secondary injuries. Be sure to describe symptoms, implications, and testing that helped clinicians to classify the injury into these categories. Please describe it in your own word. At least one page
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Primary spinal cord injury-
The primary injury is the structural damage to your spine, such as dislocation or fracture of a vertebral body with subsequent spinal cord compression, caused by the initial traumatic event.
Secondary spinal cord injury-
Damage to the spinal cord can be seen on an MRI immediately following trauma. The secondary injury is the cascade of events in the body after the initial trauma—the body's attempt to deal with the injury.
Symptom of spinal cord injury both primary and secondary spinal cord injury=
Muscular :muscle weakness, problems with coordination, stiff muscles, muscle spasms, or overactive reflexes
Whole body: Feeling faint or sweating
Sensory: reduced sensation of touch or pins and needles
Urinary: leaking of urine or urinary retention
Also common: abnormal and painful sensation, leaking of stool, or shortness of breath
Implications-
Spinal cord injury is associated with a risk of developing secondary conditions that can be debilitating and even life-threatening—
e.g. deep vein thrombosis, urinary tract infections, muscle spasms, osteoporosis, pressure ulcers, chronic pain, and respiratory complications
Diagnostic test-
Diagnostic tests for spinal cord injuries may include -
CT scan, MRI or X-ray These tests will help the doctors get a better look at abnormalities within the spinal cord.
.Primary spinal cord injury involves damage to vertebral or neural tissues from compression, traction, or shearing...
Primary spinal cord injury involves damage to vertebral or neural tissues from compression, traction, or shearing forces. Secondary spinal cord injury is related to ischemia, excitotoxicity, inflammation, edema, oxidative damage, and activation of necrotic and apoptotic cell death; it begins within minutes after injury and continues for weeks. Please describe an example of both a primary and secondary spinal cord injury. Some learners will use the same injury, such as a fall off of a horse, and describe how the...
Primary spinal cord injury involves damage to vertebral or neural tissues from compression, traction, or shearing forces. Secondary spinal cord injury is related to ischemia, excitotoxicity, inflammation, edema, oxidative damage, and activation of necrotic and apoptotic cell death; it begins within minutes after injury and continues for weeks. Please describe an example of both a primary and secondary spinal cord injury. Some learners will use the same injury, such as a fall off of a horse, and describe how the...