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T8 Complete Spinal Cord Injury. Most severe of the spinal cord injury levels. A t11 vertebral injury in fact will result in a l5 lumbar spinal cord level. The cervical region consists of 8 spinal cord segments that make up your neck but an injury to this region can affect your entire body. According to the national spinal cord injury statistical center there are 12 500 new cases of sci each year in north america.
A t11 vertebral injury in fact will result in a l5 lumbar spinal cord level. Arm and hand function is usually normal. General effects of injury to thoracic spinal cord nerves t 1 to t 5. A cervical spinal cord injury the most debilitating type of sci because all cervical scis result in quadriplegia. General effects of injury to thoracic spinal cord nerves t 6 to t 12. Most severe of the spinal cord injury levels.
Quadriplegia is when both the arms and legs are paralyzed and it is the result of nearly 60 of all spinal cord injuries.
Today the estimated lifetime cost of an sci patient is 2 35 million per patient. Spinal cord injury sci is a debilitating neurological condition with tremendous socioeconomic impact on affected individuals and the health care system. Le vels of injury 7. If you have some motor or sensory function below the affected area your injury is called incomplete. Paralysis in arms hands trunk and legs. Complete spinal cord injury is the complete sensory and motor loss below the site of spinal cord injury following acute or chronic destruction compression or ischemia of the spinal cord.