2.6 Nervous System Injury and Disease Part 3

Question 1

What results from damage to the ventral root or anterior horn cells?

Answer 1

paralysis of the associated skeletal muscles

Question 2

What happens to muscles overtime from paraylsis?

Answer 2

they begin to atrophy

Question 3

What is a complete spinal cord injury?

Answer 3

occurs when the spinal cord is completely severed at any level

Question 4

What occurs from a complete spinal cord injury?

Answer 4

motor and sensory loss in body regions below the site of the damage

Question 5

What is paraplegia?

Answer 5

lower limb paralysis

Question 6

When can paraplegia occur?

Answer 6

spinal cord is injured between T1 and L1

Question 7

What is quadriplegia?

Answer 7

paralysis of all four limbs

Question 8

When can quadriplegia occur?

Answer 8

spinal cord is injured in the cervical region

Question 9

What is carpal tunnel syndrome?

Answer 9

compression of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel

Question 10

What can occur if the ulnar nerve is damaged?

Answer 10

claw hand/ulnar claw

Question 11

What is claw hand?

Answer 11

inability to open the forth and fifth fingers caused by flexion at the IP joints and hyperextension of the MCP joints in digits 4 and 5

Question 12

What is sciatica?

Answer 12

increased pressure on the sciatic nerve

Question 13

What results from sciatica?

Answer 13

pain in the lower pelvis and posterior thigh