Solumedrol use in spinal cord injuries
Common Questions and Answers about Solumedrol use in spinal cord injuries
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I'm sorry you are dealing with a flare. I don't really have an answer since I'm in kinda the same position myself...MS but no spinal injury. Just had a flare where my left leg is just kinda useless...hard to explain. I did solumedrol, but havent really seen any improvement and have been wondering when to call the neuro back.
This drug also known as Lioresal (Baclofen)is used to treat spasticity in multiple sclerosis or spinal cord injuries. It works by reducing the transmission of impulses from the spinal cord to skeletal muscle, thus reducing the frequency and amplitude of muscle spasms in patients with spinal cord lesions.
The surgery is being done to remove the compression effect the disc herniation is having directly on your spinal cord. If the spinal cord remains compressed you are at risk for permanent neurological changes that can not be reversed.
While it is very normal to have fear and anxiety regarding any surgery, the fact that it will involve probing near the spinal cord only magnifies these responses.
When you lose control of urination, that means either the nerves or spinal cord in the lumbar spine are being pushed on or damaged. Sometimes injuries to the spine many years ago will get worse as a person gets older, due to natural settling of the spine, or perhaps even a new injury, or maybe a disk between one of the vertebral bodies is bulging out.
I have been on a long term management program for chronic pain due having spinal fusion following spinal fracture of lower and cervical cord injuries. My question is can essential tremor (getting progressively more severe) be a result of narcotic use. I am trying to avoid additional surgeries and my MD does not think that more surgeries will allow me to be pain free, only to get around a little better and avoid a wheelchair life.
Blood vessels that run up and down the spine nourish the spinal cord. However, only one vessel, the anterior spinal artery, goes to the front of the spinal cord in the area between T4 and T9. Doctors call this section of the spine the critical zone. If this single vessel is damaged, as can happen with pressure from a herniated thoracic disc, the spinal cord has no other way to get blood.
My MRI results were at c5-6 at left paracentral small protrusion and uncinated spur produces severe left c6 foraminal narrowing and left c6 compression, mild degenerative annular bulging at c6-c7 results in mild left c7 foraminal narrowing c7-t1 demonstrates a small central protrusion which does not impinge the central spinal cord, at t1-t2 a left paracentral protrusion is noted which extends into the left lateral recess.
Practitioners claim that these methods can treat a wide range of ailments, including ulcers, headaches, burns, chronic pain, nerve disorders, spinal cord injuries, diabetes, gum infections, asthma, bronchitis, arthritis, cerebral palsy, heart disease and cancer"
Google "Dr. Weill bioresonance" and read what he has to say about it.
It may also have some resemblance to Rife treatments, but I don't know if that's true or not.
If your spinal cord is being compresses at all from your C-5-6-7 injuries you can become permanently disabled. My Chiropractor would not touch my neck when I was hurting from C5-6 herniation with cord compression from the car. Do you qualify for help from the state. Do you know why your insurance would not pa y?
There are several symptoms that show signs that there is damage in the spinal cord. In the spinal cord the nerves that deal with the whole body run very close together down the cord. A single lesion can cut across an area that affects a large section of the body. One good sized lesion can essentially "cut off " the body below it as if the spine had been severed. This is the worst case scenario of the lesions of transverse myelitis, however, most lesions are not that large.
t usually lead to further problems, but if the cause is due to spinal cord lesion, its basically the spinal cord lesions that has a list of commonly connected issues eg bladder-bowel-sexual dysfunction etc though it really depends on where the lesion(s) are specifically located to what issues you might end up with.
t mention there being any spinal cord lesions, but with cord lesions like cord injuries, a lesion in the spinal cord is likely to disrupt function below the injury, for the spinal cord to have caused paralysis in arms, hands, trunk and legs it would need to involve High-Cervical Nerves (C1 – C4). MS cord lesions are more typically smaller than other types of cord lesions and don't usually traverse the spinal cord and cause parathesia in all peripheral limbs or complete paralysis.
Sadly, in the worse case scenario, if your kitten has a completely broken back near her head or chest (high up on the spinal cord) there is very little that can be done, unfortunately. She will probably be paralysed and not able to move or use her front or rear legs. She would be urinary and fecal incontinent and may require expression of her bladder so that it will not burst.
X-rays show monly your skeletal system. An x-ray will not show nerve or spinal cord injuries, ligament or blood vessel damage, etc. Over time, the damage or injury caused by nerve or spinal cord compression, ligament damage or a lack of blood flow (caused bt impingement) ususally becomes permanent or irreversible.
At this time you have no idea as to what is going on. The abovementioned are simply worse case scenarios aimed at impressing the importance of finding out your actual diagnosis.
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