What are the symptoms of a spinal injury?

When the spine is injured, the patient will lose or reduce normal sensation below the level of injury, there will be movement disorders, bladder inability to urinate or urinary incontinence, constipation and incontinence will occur in stool.

When the spine is injured, there will be neck ringing, numbness in the hands, vomiting, etc., severe cases will be incontinent and unable to take care of themselves, spinal deformity, cervical spine and lumbar spine dysfunction, etc.

In daily life, spinal injuries can have the following characteristics; Compression fractures. Causes of rotational injury, blowout fracture, spinal injury, disease, blood problems, every tissue of the human body needs good blood to maintain normalcy, and when blood fails, oxygen and other nutrients will not be able to reach the spine smoothly, resulting in spinal injury. If the spine is damaged, the back will not be able to bear the weight, which can seriously affect the patient's daily activities.

1. If there is only a slight adnexal injury to the spine, such as a transverse process fracture or a spinous process fracture, it is generally manifested as pain in the lower back and limited movement, but there is no neurological disorder. 2. If the case is more severe, there will be compressive changes in the vertebral body, and the patient often has more serious low back pain, unable to stand, and can even touch the deformity of the posterior protrusion in the lower back. 3. The most serious situation is that the injury of the spine involves the spinal cord or nerve roots in the spinal canal, which will cause corresponding neurological dysfunction, such as limb weakness, inflexibility, urine and fecal dysfunction, etc., which is very critical and requires surgery as soon as possible.

When the spine is injured, there may be sudden weakness in the legs, inability to walk or stand, unbearable back pain, weakness in the arms, inability to hold things, and incontinence.

1. There is a problem with the upper cervical spine, and the dislocation of the cervical spine will cause vertebral artery compression, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain and hypoxia of the brain. This causes symptoms such as dizziness, headache, and insomnia. 2. Insufficient blood supply to the brain can easily cause stroke.

3. Above the cervical spine is the cervical plexus, below is the brachial plexus, which is piped to the shoulder, elbow, arm and fingers, once there is a problem with the lower cervical spine, it will cause such as frozen shoulder, fifty shoulder.

Problems with the spine may lead to stroke, headache, dizziness, insomnia, memory loss, shoulder and neck pain, numbness and weakness in the upper limbs, and in severe cases, immobility.

Mainly neck pain, it is a localized cervical spondylosis; Numbness in the fingers or pain in the arm is considered radiculopathy; The main symptoms of cervical spondylosis are weakness of the hands and feet, unsteadiness in walking, and sluggishness of fine movements in the hands, mainly because the herniated disc compresses the spinal cord. Vertebral artery cervical spondylosis, the main symptoms are dizziness when the head and neck are rotated, and fainting in severe cases;

Take a cold compress in time to reduce the pain, do not move the neck and waist easily, and wait for the professional to go to the hospital for medical treatment. Marathons, sit-ups, and leg presses are exercises that can easily injure the spine.

Sit-ups, marathon is most likely to hurt the spine, mild spinal injury: vertebral compression does not exceed 1 3, spinal alignment is not affected, good stability, can not be hospitalized, bed rest for 1-2 months;

If the spine is injured, the person next to you needs to rescue, at this time, do not easily move the neck and waist, if it is not clear what part of the damage is made, do not move at will, this will lead to very serious consequences.

For example, diving, if you are not well prepared, or diving in a swimming pool that is too shallow, is very dangerous, which can lead to very serious cervical spine trauma and even life-threatening. In addition, gymnastics, equestrian and other sports are easy to cause spinal injuries, especially equestrian, when accidentally falling to the ground, people will easily hit the ground, thus causing trauma to the cervical spine.

(1) Traumatic: The most common cause of spinal cord injury is caused by closed blunt trauma, which is usually related to fracture or misalignment of the spine. About 20% of patients with spinal fractures have spinal cord injuries of varying severity.

Cervical spinal cord injury: flexion rotational dislocation or fracture dislocation is the most common, with C5-6 preferably occurring. C5-6 compression fractures are the most common.

Hyperextension injuries are most common in the elderly, accounting for about 30% of cervical spine injuries, and are most common in C4-5, which is a stability injury. Thoracolumbar spinal cord injury: flexion rotational dislocation or fracture dislocation is the most common, usually at T12-L1, resulting in anterior vertebral displacement and often instability, resulting in complete impairment of spinal, conus, or cauda equina nerve function.

Hyperextension injury: rare, usually results in complete spinal cord injury. Open Injuries:

Less common. Whiplash injury: x-rays are often negative, and spinal cord injury is often incomplete.

2) Non-traumatic vascular: arteritis, spinal thrombophlebitis, arteriovenous malformations, etc. Infectious:

Guillain-Barré syndrome, transverse myelitis, anterior horn polio, etc. Degenerative: spinal muscle atrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, syringomyelia, etc.

Tumor: primary - cerebral (spinal) meningoma, glioma, neurofibroma, multiple myeloma, etc. Secondary - secondary to lung cancer, prostate cancer, etc.

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