What Is A SCI

Question 1

What is SCI?

Answer 1

A life transforming condition that results in disruption to neural tissue within the spinal canal.

Question 2

Is SCI always sudden and traumatic?

Answer 2

No. SCI is often, but not always sudden and traumatic.

Question 3

What can SCI result in?

Answer 3

Loss of sensation

Weakness

Altered muscle tone

Question 4

What structural injury may be involved in SCI?

Answer 4

It can involve a fracture of the spinal column.

Question 5

What are possible atraumatic causes of SCI?

Answer 5

Compression (cancer, stenosis)

Vascular causes (spinal stroke)

Infective disease

Question 6

What determines the symptoms seen in SCI?

Answer 6

The location and severity of the injury.

Question 7

Why is neuroanatomy knowledge essential in SCI?

Answer 7

Because symptom presentation depends on the location and severity of the spinal cord injury.