What is a spinal cord injury?
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.
A spinal cord injury (SCI) is when there is damage to the nerves within the spinal canal. More explicitly, SCI is trauma to the vertebral column that houses the spinal cord, thereby interfering with 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.
