What are the warning signs of chronic back injury?

What causes chronic back injury?

What is Spinal Cord Injury?

Is there a cure for Spinal Cord Injury?

What are the causes of Spinal Cord Injury?

What are the warning signs of chronic back injury?

• Pain that lasts for longer than a few days but less than a month is called acute back injury
• If the pain lasts longer than a month it is called chronic back injury
• It can be in one area or spread across a wide area
• There can be stiffness, swollen muscles, and pain.  All three combined is called inflammaion
• Some injuries cause muscle spasms, some casue pain or weakness in a leg

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What causes chronic back injury?

Poor posture is the most common cause of back pain.  Injury due to lifting heavy objects is also a frequent cause of back pain.  If you left the weight incorrectly and it is positioned far in front of your spine, your back muscles have to exert a tremendous force to keep the body upright.  This can cause the muscles to strain or tear or a disc to herniate.

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What is Spinal Cord Injury?

Spinal cord injury (SCI) occurs when a traumatic event results in damage to cells within the spinal cord or severs the nerve tracts that relay signals up and down the spinal cord. The most common types of SCI include contusion (bruising of the spinal cord) and compression (caused by pressure on the spinal cord). Other types of injuries include lacerations (severing or tearing of some nerve fibers, such as damage caused by a gun shot wound), and central cord syndrome (specific damage to the corticospinal tracts of the cervical region of the spinal cord).

Severe SCI often causes paralysis (loss of control over voluntary movement and muscles of the body) and loss of sensation and reflex function below the point of injury, including autonomic activity such as breathing and other activities such as bowel and bladder control. Other symptoms such as pain or sensitivity to stimuli, muscle spasms, and sexual dysfunction may develop over time. SCI patients are also prone to develop secondary medical problems, such as bladder infections, lung infections, and bed sores.

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What are the causes of Spinal Cord Injury?

The most common causes of spinal cord injury are car and other motor vehicle collisions, falls, and other medical conditions and sports injuries. The injury is usually caused by sudden impact, which crushes the spine and cord.

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Is there a cure for Spinal Cord Injury?

Damage to the spinal cord due to an injury can be permanent and currently there is no cure, however new research proves that spinal cord repair and regeneration is possible. More and more researchers around the world are confident that a cure for paralysis could be as close as ten years away. New breakthroughs and discoveries leading to a cure are imminent.