Is a bruised or swollen spinal cord considered an injury?
It is possible to bruise the spinal cord without suffering any paralysis or loss of feeling. A trauma to the spinal cord usually causes swelling and/or scarring which results in cutting off communication between the brain and the body. However, sometimes the flow of messages is not interrupted or broken. As a result, such a spinal cord injury does not result in the loss of functions and/or paralysis.
