Medical 9-Spinal Injury Effects
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- T12 to L1?
- Paralysis and loss of feeling below the groin
- C8 to T1?
- Legs and trunk paralyzed; eyelids droop; loss of sweating on the forehead (Homer's syndrome); arms relatively normal; hands paralyzed
- S3 to S5?
- loss of bladder and bowel control; numbness in the perieum
- C1 to C5?
- Paralysis of muscles used for breathing and of all arm and leg muscles; usually fatal
- T5 to T8?
- Legs and lower trunk paralyzed; loss of feeling below the rib cage
- S1 to S2?
- Different patterns of leg weakness and numbness
- C5 to C6?
- Legs paralyzed; slight ability to flex arms
- L2 to L5?
- Different patterns of leg weakness and numbness.
- T2 to T4?
- Legs and trunk paralyzed; loss of feeling below the nipples
- T9 to T11?
- Legs paralyzed; loss of feeling below the umbilicus
- C6 to C7?
- Paralysis of legs and part of wrists and hands; shoulder movement and elbow bending relatively preserved
- Loss of bladder and bowel control can occur with severe injury _____ along the spinal column.
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