Loss of sensation and paralysis following a spinal cord injury
Spinal shock was first explored by Whytt in 1750 as a loss of sensation accompanied by motor paralysis with initial loss but gradual recovery of reflexes, following a spinal cord injury (SCI) – most often a complete transection. Reflexes in the spinal cord below the level of injury are depressed (hyporeflexia) or absent (areflexia), while those above the level of the injury remain unaffected. The 'shock' in spinal shock does not refer to circulatory collapse, and should not be confused with neurogenic shock, which is life-threatening. The term "spinal shock" was introduced more than 150 years ago in an attempt to distinguish arterial hypotension due to a hemorrhagic source from arterial hypotension due to loss of sympathetic tone resulting from spinal cord injury. Whytt, however, may have discussed the same phenomenon a century earlier, although no descriptive term was assigned.[1]
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Spinalshock was first explored by Whytt in 1750 as a loss of sensation accompanied by motor paralysis with initial loss but gradual recovery of reflexes...
if not promptly recognized and treated. It is not to be confused with spinalshock, which is not circulatory in nature. Instantaneous hypotension due to...
hypotonia, hyporeflexia and muscle atrophy. Spinalshock and neurogenic shock can occur from a spinal injury. Spinalshock is usually temporary, lasting only for...
polysynaptic reflex that is useful in testing for spinalshock and gaining information about the state of spinal cord injuries (SCI). Bulbocavernosus is an older...
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dribbles through the sphincters (overflow incontinence). After spinalshock has passed, a spinally mediated voiding reflex ensues, although there is no voluntary...
the threat of suffocation. It also occurs in the spinalshock stage in complete transection of the spinal cord occurring in injuries such as gunshot wounds...
hyporeflexia and/or areflexia. In spinalshock, which is commonly seen in the transection of the spinal cord (Spinal cord injury), areflexia can transiently...
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allergic reaction Neurogenic shock, due to a high spinal cord injury disrupting the sympathetic nervous system Hypovolemic shock, resulting from an insufficient...
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naloxone to improve blood flow in patients with shock, including septic, cardiogenic, hemorrhagic, or spinalshock, but could not determine if this reduced patient...
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and quadriplegia. There are no reflexes resembling early stages of spinalshock because of complete loss of activity in the motorneurons, as there is...
act as a ligament to hold the vertebrae together, and to function as a shock absorber for the spine. Intervertebral discs consist of an outer fibrous...
is proven wrong when Matthew walks again (he was just suffering from spinalshock, which didn't permanently disable his legs). In the third series, when...
spinal cord injury. Rupture of a hollow organ, with subsequent evacuation of contents in the peritoneal cavity could also determine neurogenic shock,...
cause. In the more narrow sense it refers to spinal osteoarthritis, the age-related degeneration of the spinal column, which is the most common cause of...
of sciatica is due to a spinal disc herniation pressing on one of the lumbar or sacral nerve roots. Spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, piriformis syndrome...
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organ systems and a significant reduction in mobility or paralysis. Spinalshock causes temporary paralysis and loss of reflexes. Unlike most other injuries...
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