Karen falls down a flight of stairs and suffers spinal cord damage due to hyperextension of the cord during the fall. The injury results in edema of the spinal cord with resulting compression of the anterior horn cells of the spinal region. What signs would you expect to observe as a result of this injury?

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Seamus Mathis

22 October, 15:28

Karen falls down a flight of stairs and suffers spinal cord damage due to hyperextension of the cord during the fall. The injury results in edema of the spinal cord with resulting compression of the anterior horn cells of the spinal region. What signs would you expect to observe as a result of this injury?

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Tabitha Holloway · Answer 1

The spinal cord plays an important role in the organisms as all the nerves are extended from the spinal and the important component of the central nervous system. The spinal cord plays an important role in the reflex action as well.

The spinal cord control the movement and functioning of the motor neurons. The injury in the spinal cord can cause the problem in sitting, standing or walking. The control of the skeletal muscles of the lower limb of the body gets disturb during the spinal cord injury.