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Spinal cord injuries can be divided into two broad etiological categories, what are they?
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Traumatic and non traumatic damage
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What is an example of a traumatic damage injury?
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Motor vehicle accident, gun shot
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What is an example of a nontraumatic damage injury?
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Vascular malfunctions, thrombosis, embolus, vertebral subluxations, infections, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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What nerves are damaged in a high tetraplegia?
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C1-C4
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What nerves are damaged in a low tetraplegia/?
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C-C8
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Spinal cord injuries typically are divided into 2 broad functional categories, what are they?
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Tetraplegia, and paraplegia
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Partial or Complete paralysis of all four extermities and trunk, including the respiratory muscles, and results from lesions of the cervical cord
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Tetraplegia
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Partial or Complete paralysis of all or part of the trunk and both lower extremities, resulting from lesions of the thoracic or lumbar spinal cord or cauda equina
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Paraplegia
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How many spinal nerves are there?
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31
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What muscles are innervated by C1, C2, and C3
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Facial muscles
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What muscles are innervated by C4?
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Diaphragm and traps
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What muscles are innervated by C5?
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Deltoid and biceps
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What muscles are innervated by C6?
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Wrist extensors
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What muscles are innervated by C7?
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Triceps
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What muscles are innervated by C8-T1
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Hand and fingers
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