Spinal Cord Injury Flashcards
1
Q
What is a cauda equina injury?
A
Disruption to nerve roots that lie within the spinal column
2
Q
what are the congenital causes of spinal cord injury?
A
1) Spina Bifida
2) Spinal muscular atrophy
3) Congenital spinal anomaly
4) Birth Trauma
3
Q
what is Tetraplegia?
A
Cervical lesion of spinal cord
4
Q
What is Paraplegia?
A
Thoracic lesion of spinal cord
5
Q
What areas of the spinal cord have enlargments of the ventral horn?
A
Cervical and lumbosacral
6
Q
What is Brown Sequard syndrome?
A
Lesion of half the cord leads to loss of :
- motor from the ipsilateral side
- Dorsal column ipsilateral side.
- spinothalamic contralateral side.
7
Q
What lesion leads to loss of parasympathetic control?
A
Lesions above T6
8
Q
What is Autonomic Dysreflexia?
A
In Lesions above T6. It causes life threatening hypertension.
