The spinal cord and the nervous system is what relays senses back to the brain and their respected areas. They are the highway of communication that keeps everything in the brain and body alive. The spinal cord is broken up into four subsections. Starting from the top and going down, the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and the sacral. Afferent signals push the information gathered by the nerves to the brain and efferent pushes the responses back to the brain. The efferent signals tell the body what to do. Nerves connect to the spinal cord and extent throughout the body. If any of the spinal cord is damaged then it’s almost like a blocked road that they brain can’t get to. Also damage to the different parts of the spinal cord will hurt different
