Your spinal cord is a bundle of nerves that runs down the middle of your back. It carries signals back and forth between your body and your brain. It is protected by your vertebrae, which are the bone disks that make up your spine. If you have an accident that damages the vertebrae or other parts of the spine, this can also injure the spinal cord. Other spinal cord problems include:
- Tumors
- Infections such as meningitis and polio
- Inflammatory diseases
- Autoimmune diseases
- Degenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and spinal muscular atrophy
Symptoms vary but might include pain, numbness, loss of sensation and muscle weakness. These symptoms can occur around the spinal cord, and also in other areas such as your arms and legs. Treatments often include medicines and surgery.
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- Spinal Cord Diseases (National Library of Medicine)Your spinal cord is a bundle of nerves that runs down the middle of your back. It carries signals back ... of the spine, this can also injure the spinal cord. Other spinal cord problems include: Tumors Infections such ...
- Spinal Cord Injuries (National Library of Medicine)Your spinal cord is a bundle of nerves that runs down the middle of your back. It carries signals back ... forth between your body and your brain. A spinal cord injury disrupts the signals. Spinal cord injuries usually ...
- Hypomyelination with brainstem and spinal cord involvement and leg spasticity (HBSL) is a condition that affects the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system). In ...
- Leukoencephalopathy with brainstem and spinal cord involvement and lactate elevation (commonly referred to as LBSL) is a progressive disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord. ...
- Spinal cord trauma is damage to the spinal cord. It may result from direct injury to the cord itself or indirectly from disease of the nearby bones, tissues, or blood vessels.
- Spinal cord abscess is the swelling and irritation (inflammation) and the collection of infected material (pus) and germs in or around the spinal cord.
- Syringomyelia (National Library of Medicine)... that causes a cyst to form in your spinal cord. This cyst, called a syrinx, gets bigger and longer over time, destroying part of the spinal cord. Damage to the spinal cord from the syrinx ...
- ... Cord Injury Medical Expert Interviews Topics menu Topics Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Basics Adult Injuries Spinal Cord Injury Basics David Chen, MD Preventing Bedsores (Pressure ...
- ... Cord Injury Medical Expert Interviews Topics menu Topics Spinal Cord Injury Basics Adult Injuries Spinal Cord Injury Basics ...
- ... growth of cells (mass) in or around the spinal cord. ... a tumor of the supporting cells inside the spinal cord Meningioma: tumor of the tissue that covers the ...
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