Spinal nerve damage

With bone diseases prevalent today, spinal nerve damage has become a bone disease that threatens the health of modern people. Once spinal cord nerve damage occurs, it will cause great distress to the patient's body and mind. It is generally believed that spinal nerve damage is related to various factors such as sensory disorders, movement disorders, and muscle dysfunction. No matter what the cause of spinal nerve damage, the key is to find a way to treat it. So what are the treatments for spinal nerve damage?

Symptoms of spinal cord injury:

1. Sensory impairment: The patient's main symptoms are weakened or disappeared pain, temperature, touch and proprioception below the injury level.

2. Movement disorders: During the spinal shock period, patients below the spinal cord injury segment show flaccid paralysis and loss of reflexes. After the shock period, if it is a spinal cord transection injury, upper motor neuron paralysis, increased muscle tone, hyperreflexia, clonus and ticulosis, and pathological reflexes will occur.

3. Muscle dysfunction: Patients in the spinal shock stage show urine retention, which is caused by paralysis of the detrusor muscle of the bladder, resulting in a tension-free bladder. After the shock period, if the spinal cord injury is above the spinal cord level, automatic reflex bladder may be formed, with residual urine less than 100ml, but the patient cannot urinate at will. If the spinal cord injury plane is in the conus part of the spinal cord or spinal nerve root damage, urinary incontinence will occur, and the bladder needs to be emptied by increasing abdominal pressure (squeezing the abdomen with hands) or using a catheter to empty the urine. Constipation and incontinence also occur in the stool.

How to treat spinal cord injury

one. This disease is paraplegia caused by vertebral fracture and spinal cord injury. The purpose of surgery is to restore the caliber of the spinal canal to allow the nerves to pass smoothly and create favorable conditions for the recovery of nerve function. However, the recovery of damaged and paralyzed nerves depends on the promotion of drugs and functional training in addition to self-repair to achieve the best recovery state. If the disease is not optimally restored within effective treatment, the nerves may atrophy and soften due to prolonged ischemia, making it more difficult to restore various functions. Therefore, the key to treatment and recovery lies in the early stage. In addition to neurotrophic drugs, traditional Chinese medicine can be used to enhance spinal blood circulation. Nerve regeneration drugs can be used to stimulate and activate the nerves that control paralysis and shock after injury to regulate movement, defecation and various functions, and reasonable exercises can be performed to achieve optimal recovery and functional reconstruction. There is no other way.

2. This disease is paraplegia caused by vertebral fracture combined with spinal cord injury. The purpose of the operation is to restore the caliber of the spinal canal to allow the nerves to pass smoothly and create favorable conditions for the recovery of nerve function. However, the recovery of damaged and paralyzed nerves depends on the promotion of drugs and functional training in addition to self-repair to achieve the best recovery state. If the disease is not optimally restored within effective treatment, the nerves may atrophy and soften due to prolonged ischemia, making it more difficult to restore various functions.

Rehabilitation

(1) Physical therapy: including muscle strength training, balance training and coordination training; posture and transfer training; weight loss and load reduction training; standing and walking training, wheelchair training; physical therapy, electromyography biofeedback therapy, etc.

(2) Occupational therapy: including daily living activities training, recreation and work training, etc.

(3) Application of orthotics: including ankle-foot orthoses, knee-ankle-foot orthoses, etc., as well as upper limb orthoses.

(4) Psychotherapy: including some psychological counseling and biofeedback therapy.