Spinal Cord Injury

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Lower Motor Neuron Deficits are characterized by:

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-Enduring Flaccid Paralysis
-Rapid Muscle or Atrophy
-Fasciculations of affected Muscle
-Hypotonia
-Hyporeflexia or Areflexia

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Ex of Lower Motor Neuon Disease

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Polio and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

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Upper Motor Neuron Lesion symptoms

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-Spascticity
-Hypertonia
-Clonus
-Clasps Knide Response
-Altered cutaneous reflexes including the abdominal, cremasteric, Babinski and Hoffman signs
-Autonomic Dysreflexia

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Typical upper motor neuron lesion is a lesion of the

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Pyramidal System either in Cerebral Cortex or along its pathway

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Lesions of the hypothalamospinal tract contribute to

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autonomic dysreflexia
(problems with primarily sympathetically mediated autonomic activity)

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Lesions of the dorsal column produce loss or reduction of:

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Epicritic touch
Vibration
Position sense

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Dorsal column lesion in the spinal cord will produce functional loss ______

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Ipsilateral

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Dorsal column lesion in the medial lemniscus will produce functional loss ______

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Contralateral

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an example of a pathology that often produces degeneration in the dorsal column system

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Tabes dorsalis (neurosyphilis)

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Lesions of the anterolateral system will produce

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a contralateral loss of pain, temperature and protopathic touch sensation
-typically 1-2 segments below the lesion in the spinal cord

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Syringomyelia

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example of an anterolateral system lesion that is often bilateral and usually affecting cervical segments 1st

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Lesion of the Spinocerebellar tracts in the spinal cord

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Do not generally produce isolated clinically distinuishable symptoms

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Neuropraxia

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the function of the axon may be disrupted without physcial injury of the axon
-like a nerve pressure block

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Axonotmesis

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axon within a nerve is disrupted, but the connective tissue scaffold(endo, peri and epineurium) is intact
-over stretching

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Neurotmesis

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Axons and the connective tissue structure of the nerve are both disrupted
-cutting injuries or other severe trauma

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Neuromas

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a mass of axons and connective tissue that prevents the axon from continuing to grow towards its target. Removal of the neuroma is necessary for repair.