The spinal cord injury, or "spinal cord injury" can have multiple causes: accidents of life or disease can be responsible for these injuries.
An injury to the spinal cord can cause paraplegia (paralysis of the lower limbs) or quadriplegia (paralysis of the lower and upper limbs) leading to sensory and motor losses but also genito-sphincter disorders. The messages that the brain wishes to transmit to motor and sensory functions no longer pass, or pass badly.
Take the example of a highway: if it is bombed, a crater forms and prevents vehicles from moving in both directions. Then create a traffic jam or a strong slowdown.
We always believed that it was possible to fix this traffic lane by building a bridge to keep vehicles moving again: that the information between the brain and the rest of the body flow again. .
This lesion causes a more or less significant loss of mobility or sensitivity.
Depending on the neurological level of the spinal cord involvement and the extent of the injury, different functions will be affected.
There are two types of spinal cord injury: complete injury and incomplete injury.
With a complete lesion, the paralysis affects the entire part of the body below the lesion.
In the event of an incomplete injury only part of the spinal cord is damaged. In this case, some of the mobility or sensitivity may be retained.