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Spinal shock
After separation of spinal cord from brain spinal shock occurs.
Spinal shock is manifested by disappearing of all motor activities and all kinds of sensitiveness (pain, touch, temperature)
in the areas of body that are located below the place of injury (!). In human spinal shock lasts for weeks or months.
Main cause of spinal shock blockage of excitatory influences of higher levels of CNS on spinal cords neuron.
Using tendon stretch reflexes helps to locate at what level injury of spinal cord is located.
One-sided damage of the spinal cord is named syndrome of Braun-Sekar -it is paralysis on the side of damage, loss of
pain and temperature sensitiveness on the lateral side and decrease of touch sensitiveness from both sides.