Spinal Cord Injury Research Paper

What type of senses are lost when a person has a spinal cord injury? What does this injure in the peripheral nervous system?

In class we have learned many things involving the peripheral nervous system. We have learned about injuries, nerves, and how things flow. I heard someone the other day talking about spinal cord injury, I had assumed it was a specific injury. However, spinal cord injury happens to people for a number of reasons. I want to know what kind of damage it has on the peripheral nervous system and what no longer works.

Since there is three sections in the spinal cord, each section has a different outcome when it comes to an injury. A spinal cord injury within C1-C8 is called Quadriplegia or Tetraplegia. Paralysis affects the cervical spinal nerves, in different degrees in all four limbs. The body will still try to send messages from the injury to the brain through the spinal cord, via sensory pathways. The brain will also attempt to send messages from the brain to muscles via motor pathways. However these signals will be blocked by the damage in the spinal cord where the injury is located. Peripheral nerves in the spinal cord above the spinal cord injury will not be affected and still be able to continue and work as normal sending and receiving messages through the spinal cord. …show more content…
The amount the person is paralysed can differ from the impairment of leg movement, to complete paralysis of the legs and abdomen. The person is still able to have full movement of their upper