Symptoms of thoracic myelitis

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Sequelae of myelitis is a kind of harmful disease, which causes great pain to patients and even threatens their lives. If it can be treated as soon as possible, it can avoid more harm. Understanding the symptoms of sequelae of myelitis is helpful to find the disease earlier. So, what are the main symptoms of myelitis sequelae? Let's talk about it.

Symptoms of thoracic myelitis

Reflex activity: after shock stage, the limb reflex below the damaged plane gradually turns from disappearance to hyperactivity, and the tension slows to spasm. Complete spinal cord injury was followed by flexion paraplegia and partial extension paraplegia. Sometimes, stimulation of the lower limbs can cause irrepressible flexion and extension, which is called global reflex.

Bladder function: the stage of spinal cord shock is tension-free neurogenic bladder; the stage of spinal cord shock is reflex neurogenic bladder and intermittent urinary incontinence; When the spinal cord returns to reflex, the skin irritation will lead to involuntary reflex micturition, and the late stage is contracture neurogenic bladder.

Spinal cord shock: after spinal cord injury, complete tardy paralysis below the injury level, all kinds of reflex, sensory and sphincter function disappeared, began to recover within a few hours, and completely recovered in 2-4 weeks. Severe spinal cord injury also has the process of spinal cord shock, generally 3-6 weeks later, the spinal cord function activity below the damaged level gradually appears.

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Motor function: hyperreflexia, part of the injured gradually appear part of the muscle after the shock stage of autonomous activity. When there are signs of motor neuron injury such as muscle relaxation, atrophy and disappearance of tendon reflex in the injured stage after spinal cord injury, it has the significance of localization diagnosis.