What is a spinal cord injury?
A spinal cord injury (SCI) occurs when there is traumatic injury to the spinal cord resulting in a loss of function, such as mobility and sensation, below the level of injury. The part of the spine that is injured and the severity of the injury will dictate how much function is lost. Most spinal cord injuries do not result in a severance of the spinal cord, but in a fracture of the vertebrae that compresses the cord, causing injury.
Your spinal cord is like a two-way multi-lane highway that starts at the base of your brain and carries messages to and from all parts of your body. The spinal cord reaches out to the areas of the body that the brain can’t be directly connected to. Since our brains control almost everything we do, it’s obvious how serious a spinal cord injury can be in a person’s life.
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is an injury to the nerves in the spinal canal. Many SCIs occur with trauma to the vertebral column, and interfere with the spinal cord’s function in relaying messages from the brain to the rest of the body. This interrupts sensory, motor, and autonomic activity below the area of the spine where the injury occured. This can cause paralysis, quadriplegia, paraplegia, and other conditions such as pressure sores. In addition to pressure sores, secondary conditions from SCI include spasticity, respiratory complications, scoliosis, and urinary tract infections.
A spinal cord injury is a catastrophic personal injury which damages the conduit that delivers the brain’s messages to the rest of the body. Usually the result of a sudden, traumatic blow to the spine, a spinal cord injury results when the vertebrae are fractured, dislocated, or bruised, or when the spinal cord is crushed. When this occurs, the victim often loses function or sensation in his or her extremities. A spinal cord injury may result in paraplegia (paralysis of the lower extremities) or quadriplegia (paralysis of all four extremities). The closer a spinal cord injury occurs to the head, the larger the area of the body that is affected. Tragically, most spinal cord injures are irreversible. According to the Mayo Clinic, a quarter million Americans are living with spinal cord injuries. If you have suffered a spinal cord injury, contact the Indianapolis, Indiana spinal cord injury attorneys at the Law Offices of Doehrman & Chamberlain and schedule a case consultation and evaluati
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is damage to the nerves within the spinal canal. Most SCI’s are caused by trauma to the vertebral column, thereby affecting the spinal cord’s ability to send and receive messages from the brain to the body’s systems that control sensory, motor and autonomic function below the level of injury.
