Abilities of an individual with an incomplete injury depend on which nerves are transmitting messages. No two incomplete injuries are exactly the same, although they can be similar.
Incomplete injuries are unique to the person. Incomplete injury indicates some messages are getting through. Complete injuries indicate no messages are getting through the affected area of injury in the spinal cord. It does NOT mean your spinal cord is completely severed. It really means all messages to and from the brain are completely blocked. The significance of these injuries is much more than just arm and leg movement as sensation and all body systems are affected.Ĭomplete injuries are those where there is no function or sensation below the level of injury. An injury that affects the lower half of the body is called paraplegia. Injury that affects all four limbs is called tetraplegia (this used to be called quadriplegia). In general, the higher in the spinal cord an injury occurs, the more function, sensation and internal body functions will be affected. The most common is loss of motor, sensory and slowing of some of the body’s internal organs (autonomic nerve function) below the level of the injury. Results of a spinal cord injury can appear differently depending on the type and location of the injury. Spinal cord injury can occur as a fetus develops, from trauma or medical conditions.
This can include consequences of a medical illness or trauma resulting in over stretching the nerves, a bump, the bone of the vertebra pressing against the cord, a shock wave, electrocution, tumors, infection, poison, lack of oxygen (ischemia), cutting or tearing of the nerves. Spinal cord injury occurs when something interferes with the function or structure of the cord.
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