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Nerve Transfers Give Hope to People with Spinal Cord Injuries
Nerve transfer surgery is a newer procedure that can improve movement in the elbows, wrists and hands after a cervical spinal cord injury. In people with spinal cord injury, the nerves leaving the spinal cord above the area of injury continue to work while the ones below may not. The person still has sensation and control over the muscles connected to the nerves above the injury. Learn more. #nervetransfer #surgery #plasticsurgery #spinalcordinjuries
Effects of Nerve Damage Along the Spinal Cord - SMART Imagebase
This stock medical illustration portrays the effects of nerve damage along the spinal cord. It shows a posterior view of the spine, differentiating between the cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral...
Following spinal cord injury, most of us who are paralyzed think in terms of what has been lost below the level of injury. But what is more worrisome is the possibility that damage can also go the other way, ascending to higher levels in the cord, resulting in possible additional motor and sensory loss, increased spasticity, pain and more. Worse yet, it can happen years after the initial injury.
