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International Center for Spinal Cord Injury

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Spinal Cord Injury: Causes, Effects and Classifications

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This video discusses understanding spinal cord injuries. It is part of the DVD series "Understanding Spinal Cord Injury" created by Shepherd Center. Visit spinalinjury101.org to view the entire video series.

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Christopher Reeve was born on September 25, 1952, in New York City. Reeve lived in New York City until the age of 4 when his parents divorced and his mother took him to Princeton, New Jersey. After Reeve graduated from high school, he studied at Cornell University, while at the same time working as a professional actor. After graduating from Cornell University in 1974, Reeve focused more on pursuing his dream of acting. Reeve went on to distinguish himself in multiple roles on stage, screen and television shows. Reeve starred in the movie ¨Superman¨ in 1978, earning himself the title of being the original superman.

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How Christopher Reeve's life changed after the accident

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How Christopher Reeve's life changed after the accident

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Christopher Reeve's morning routine: he takes a bucketful of vitamins, and then his nurse and a helper flex his legs and arms for at least an hour, keeping them supple and helping to stop them leaping about in uncontrollable spasms. They tape electrodes to his limbs and stimulate his muscles for another hour - he tries to eat breakfast at the same time - and then they wash and dress him and lift him into his wheelchair, strapping his arms down to the arm-rests and adjusting the padded support which cradles his head and neck. They connect a pipe to his throat and hook it up to a ventilator, and they attach a valve that collects his urine in a tube concealed in his right trouser-leg. Also, he spends about $440,000 for his treatments each year.

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-As humans age some of the vertebrae fuse together.

-Their are over 120 muscles contained in the spine.

-The spinal column includes approximately 220 separate ligaments in the spinal cord. Over 100 joints in the spinal cord allows the spine to be extremely flexible and range of movement in different movements.

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Reeve was paralyzed by fractures to the top two vertebrae, this occurred when he was thrown off his horse and broke his neck. He was unable to breathe without the help of a respirator.

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The spinal cord is important because without your spinal cord your brain and body can not communicate with each other the spinal cord is also a pathway for impulses to travel in the human body to the brain than it travels from the brain back to the body.

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A spinal cord injury or SCI is damage to any part of the spinal cord or nerves at the end of spinal canal. The injury often causes permanent changes in strength, sensation, and other body functions below the site of the injury. A SCI disrupts the signals between the body and the brain. A SCI fractures or dislocates the vertebrae . A complete SCI, cause the cord to not be able to send signals below the level of the injury. As a result, it causes the person to become paralyzed. An incomplete SCI, allows some movement and sensation below the injury.

-SJM