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Back & Spinal Cord Injuries

• The Spinal Cord and Spinal Nerves
• Assessment of Spinal Injury
• Neck Trauma

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What is a spinal cord injury?

The spinal cord is the major bundle of nerves that moves nerve impulses between the brain and the rest of the body. Spinal cord injury usually starts with a sudden, traumatic blow to the spine that fractures or dislocates vertebrae. The impact causes the vertebrae to fracture or compress, which in turn crushes the extensive nerve cells (axons) that carry signals along the spinal cord between the brain and the body. The specific effect of a spinal cord injury depends on the location and severity of the injury. An injury to the spinal cord can damage a small number of axons or almost all of them. Spinal cord injuries are called either "complete" or "incomplete". The victim of a complete injury totally lacks sensory and motor function below the level of the injury. An incomplete spinal cord injury victim retains some sensory motor function below the injury site.

Tragically, many brain and spinal cord injures are irreversible. In addition to draining the victim both physically and emotionally, spinal cord injuries can also drain a family's finances because medical care for spinal cord injuries is costly and long-term. Many people who live with spinal cord injury have secondary complications including pain, respiratory and heart problems, bladder and bowel dysfunction, pressure sores, respiratory complications, urinary tract infections, spasticity and scoliosis.

Spinal Cord Injury Attorneys in the State of Washington 

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Blog for Back & Spinal Cord Injuries

• Spinal Cord Injury Attorney in Seattle, WA

  Description: Seattle Spinal Cord Injury Attorney Chris Davis answers your questions about serious back injury cases and getting financial compensation for your injuries.

• Is Artificial Disk Surgery Better Than Fusion Surgery?

Library for Back & Spinal Cord Injuries:

• Neck Trauma
  Description: Neck trauma: penetrating, blunt, and near hanging and strangulation.
• Assessment of Spinal Injury
  Description: Looking at Spinal Injury, the Anatomy behind them, and Causes
• The Spinal Cord and Spinal Nerves
  Description: The spinal cord provides a vital link between the brain and the rest of the body, and yet it exhibits some functional independence from the brain.
• UCLA Study Helps ER Physicians Identify Previously Undetectable Spinal Injuries
  Description: ScienceDaily (Sep. 7, 2005) — A new national study indicates that patients with a cervical spinal injury (CSI) may harbor additional spinal damage not visible on regular x-rays. In fact, more than a third of patients who were thought to have low-risk injuries actually have additional damage that may include significant fractures with the potential to produce serious spinal problems if not detected and treated properly.
• Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery for Herniated Lumbar Discs
  Description: If conservative treatment has failed, and you still have severe pain 2 to 3 months after diagnosis of a herniated lumbar disc pressing on a spinal nerve, you may benefit from minimally invasive spine surgery, and the METRx Micro Endoscopic Discectomy procedure could be the solution for you.
• Chiropractic Thoracic Spine Manipulation
  Description: Chiropractic manipulation of the thoracic spine.
• Cervical Spine & Disc Anatomy (video)
  Description: Nucleus Medical Art's 3D medical animation shows the anatomy of a typical cervical (neck) spine and intervertebral disc. Details include orientation of the cervical spine, movements of the spinal vertebrae,
  and movement of intervertebral discs. A cross-section of the intervertebral disk and spinal cord highlight the nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus, spinal cord, dura mater, spinal root, and spinal nerve.
• 3D Medical Animation: Thoracolumbar Spinal Fusion
  Description: 3D medical animation showing the thoracolumbar spine with fusion hardware in place.
• 3D/2D Medical Animation: Anterior Cervical Fusion
  Description: 3D/2D medical animation showing an anterior cervical decompression and fusion procedure with discectomy and placement of allograft and fusion hardware.
• Anterior Cervical Fusion (video)
  Description: 3D medical animation showing an anterior cervical fusion surgical procedure with C4-5 discectomy, placement of fibular strut allograft and fusion hardware.
• LECTURE: Spinal Stenosis: Minimally Invasive Treatment Alternatives (Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA)
  Description: This program discusses the role of nonoperative care and interventional management with injections and reports results of epidural steroids and indications for nerve root blocks.
• LECTURE: Update on Spinal Cord Injuries
  Description: Current strategies to counter spinal cord injury revolve around prevention through education, streamlined diagnostic process, and early decompression and stabilization of the traumatized spinal cord and surrounding structural elements.
• LECTURE: Spinal Stenosis: When to Fuse (Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA)
  Description: Performing a fusion in the thoraco-lumbar spine may be a necessity under certain circumstances, however, includes a greater surgical invasiveness and alters the biomechanics of the spinal column.
• LECUTRE: Minimally Invasive Treatment for Spinal Stenosis (Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA)
  Description: Doctors discuss how patients were diagnosed with spinal stenosis and treated with minimally invasive spinal surgery.
• LECTURE: Specific Indications for Spine Surgery (Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA)
  Description: There are several accepted causes of back pain that can benefit from surgical intervention with appropriately selected surgery.
• LECTURE: Non-Fusion Spinal Reconstruction (Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA)
  Description: In this program, doctors discuss motion-preserving options in spine surgery. Describes the procedure referred to as “laminaplasty” for patients who require decompression of their spinal cord due to severe cervical spinal stenosis.
• LECTURE: Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery (Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA)
  Description: Anterior neck surgery allows for a very meaningful and complete surgical decompression of a compromised spinal cord and nerve roots. Limitations of this technique, however, exist in terms of its potential to achieve a successful fusion, loss of alignment and bone graft donor site morbidity. Recent advances in techniques under utilization of cages and improved plate designs have shown encouraging improvements in patient outcomes.
• LECTURE: Motion-preserving Surgery of the Spine (Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA)
  Description: In the reconstruction efforts of non-traumatic, non-malignant conditions of the cervical spine, increasing efforts are underway to avoid fusion surgery, in order to avoid potential propagation of disc degeneration while utilizing minimally invasive procedures to increase patient comfort and expedite recovery.
• LECTURE: Surgeon Views on Lumbar Disc Replacement Surgery (Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA)
  Description: Discussion attempts to identify preferences of the spine surgeons participating in the Low Back Forum as to specific indications for lumbar disc replacement surgery.
• LECTURE: Specific Indications for Spine Surgery (Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA)
  Description: There are several accepted causes of back pain that can benefit from surgical intervention with appropriately selected surgery. This is an in-depth discussion of the advantages and drawbacks of various surgical treatment concepts, such as leaving the vertebrae in place and providing a fusion, as opposed to repositioning the vertebrae and maintaining the new spinal alignment with special implants.

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Frequent Questions for Back & Spinal Cord Injuries:

• My spinal specialist said I need a fusion. Is that true?
• Under what conditions is a lumbar spinal fusion recommended?
• What is a lumbar fusion?
• What is the mortality rate of people with Spinal Cord Injuries?
• Does everyone who sustains Spinal Cord Injuries use a wheelchair?
• Do people with Spinal Cord Injuries ever get better?<
• Is there a cure for spinal cord injuries?
• How many people have Spinal Cord Injuries? Who are they?
• What are the effects of Spinal Cord Injuries?
• What is the spinal cord and the vertebra?
• What is Spinal Cord Injury?

Case Results for Back & Spinal Cord Injuries:

• $550,000 Jury Verdict for Nonsurgical Herniated Disc

Awarded: $550,000 Jury Verdict

• $350,000 Award For Lumbar Herniated Disc | Settlement Offer $125,000

Awarded: $350,000

• $300,000 Settement for Low Back Disc Protrusion

Awarded: $300,000 Settlement for Low Back Injury

Videos about Back & Spinal Cord Injuries:

• Degenerative Disc Cage Fusion Surgery
• Medical Animation, Lumbar Interbody Fusion
• LUMBAR LAMINECTOMY
• Spinal Decompression
• Laminectomy animation
• Neck Pain: Cervical Spine & Disc Anatomy
• Anterior Cervical Fusion
• Discectomy
• Micro Endoscopic Discectomy
• Herniated Disc
• Herniated Disc Treatment Options
• Spinal Decompression Therapy
• Bulging Disc Treatment Success Rates
• Back Surgery for Disc Herniation | Car Accident Injury
• Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery for Herniated Lumbar Discs
• Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Web Resources for Back & Spinal Cord Injuries:

• Drug could stop spinal injuries, researchers say

  Description: They propose using a common, generic diabetes drug in combination with a gene-silencing technique to stop spine injuries from getting any worse, and believe the approach may also work in people with stroke and traumatic brain injuries.

• Gene-Targeted Therapy Might Help Prevent Paralysis

  Description: A study in rats is raising new hope for a treatment that might help spare people with injured spines from the paralysis that often follows such trauma.

• The syndrome of acute central cervical spinal cord injury
• Spinal cord injury - Article

  Description:

  Meyer PR Jr, Cybulski GR, Rusin JJ, Haak MH.
  Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.

  
  

  The evaluation and treatment of spinal cord injury continues to evolve, enhanced by new imaging modalities. Their application in reference to the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine is discussed. Treatment options, both conservative and surgical, are outlined.

• Spinal cord injury. Handbook of rehabilitation psychology

  Description: Richards, J. Scott; Kewman, Donald G.; Pierce, Christopher A.
  Frank, Robert G. (Ed); Elliott, Timothy R. (Ed). (2000). Handbook of rehabilitation psychology. (pp. 11-27). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. xiv, 727 pp. doi: 10.1037/10361-001
  
  Spinal cord injury (SCI) resulting from trauma imposes major and permanent life changes on the predominantly young male population who receive these injuries. In this chapter the authors review the changing demographics of this population and then consider the role of traditional clinical and counseling techniques in assessment and treatment that apply to SCI rehabilitation.

• Spinal Cord Injury: Comprehensive handbook of clinical health psychology

  Description: By Bret A. Boyer, M. Indira Paharia
  
  

• Spinal Cord Injury - Article

  Description:

  C. Sadowsky a; O. Volshteyn a; L. Schultz a;J. W. McDonald b

  
  

  This article is an overview of the newer therapeutic interventions employed in the care of the spinal cord injured individual and the theoretical rationale supporting them.  Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) care was, until recently, a maintenance type treatment, addressing systems mostly affected by complications of the original injury (e.g. bladder, skin, spasiticity).  With the recent advances in the neuroscience field, more aggressive interventions geared at secondary injury prevention, neuronal regeneration and functional restoration are emerging.

• Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury - Article

  Description:

  Critical Care Medicine:
  November 2002 - Volume 30 - Issue 11 - pp S489-S499

  
  

  Pediatric spinal cord injury is a relatively uncommon problem, responsible for approximately 5% of all spinal cord injuries. Anatomic and behavioral differences between adults and children lead to variation in injury type and severity. Young children are more prone to high cervical injuries, with nearly 80% of injuries in children <2 yrs old affecting this area. As the child approaches 8-10 yrs of age, the spinal anatomy and therefore injury pattern more closely approximates adult injuries. Although the prevalence of spine injuries is lower in children, clearing the spine becomes more complex due to radiographic differences and the inability to clinically clear the cervical spine in young children. In this article, the types of injuries seen in children are discussed, with an emphasis on acute management and clearance of the cervical spine. Treatment options and long-term issues are also discussed.

• Spinal-Cord Injury - Article

  Description: The Lancet, Volume 359, Issue 9304, Pages 417-425
  J.McDonald, C.Sadowsky
  
  More than a decade ago, spinal-cord injury meant confinement to a wheelchair and a lifetime of medical comorbidity. The physician's armamentarium of treatments was very limited, and provision of care for individuals with spinal-cord injury was usually met with frustration. Advances in the neurosciences have drawn attention to research into spinal-cord injury. Nowadays, advanced interventions provide high hope for regeneration and functional restoration. As scientific advances become more frequent, scepticism is giving way to the ideas that spinal-cord injury will eventually be repairable and that strategies to restore function are within our grasp. We address the present understanding of spinal-cord injury, its cause, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment, and look at promising research avenues. We also discuss new treatment options, including functional electric stimulation and part-weight-supported walking.
  

• United Spinal Association

  Description:

  United Spinal Association is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization formed in 1946 by paralyzed veterans who pioneered the disability rights movement.  The organization's mission is to improve the quality of life of all Americans living with spinal cord injuries and disorders (SCI/D), including multiple sclerosis, spina bifida, Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS), and post polio.

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