Symptoms of thoracic spine injury?

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Thoracic spinal cord injury is one of the types of spinal cord injury, the emergence of this disease is mostly caused by larger accidents, patients with this disease will have some obvious symptoms, this time should be treated in time, thoracic spinal cord injury symptoms? Now let me tell you something.

Symptoms of thoracic spine injury?

Sensory disturbance, which mainly refers to the pain, temperature, touch and proprioception under the plane of lumbar spine injury, will weaken and disappear, but if the patient's spinal cord injury is incomplete, this feeling is still intact.

Most dyskinesia occurs in the spinal cord shock, because in the thoracic vertebrae, soft paralysis occurs below the stage of spinal cord injury, and in severe cases, the reflex will disappear. After the shock stage, if the spinal cord is still transected, there will be motor neuron paralysis. At this time, not only the muscle tension will increase, In addition, tendon reflexes may be hyperreflexive, even patellar clonus, ankle clonus and pathological reflexes.

Sphincter dysfunction * usually occurs in the spinal cord during shock stage, mainly due to urinary retention, while bladder detrusor paralysis is caused by a tension free bladder. After shock stage, spinal cord injury can form automatic reflex bladder above the level of sacral spinal cord.

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After we have a certain understanding of these symptoms, we should also know that once the disease occurs, it is easy to cause other complications, and even life-threatening are possible. Therefore, patients should not be careless after the disease, and must be treated in time, so as not to delay the best treatment opportunity, which will increase the difficulty of treatment.