A spinal injury usually begins with a sudden, traumatic blow to the spine that fractures or dislocates vertebrae. The damage begins at the moment of injury when displaced bone fragments, disc material or ligaments bruise or tear into spinal tissue. Spinal injuries cause myelopathy or damage to nerve roots or myelinated fiber tracts that carry signals to and from the brain. Depending on its classification and severity, this type of traumatic injury could also damage the grey matter in the central part of the causing segmental losses of interneurons and motorneurons. Most injuries to the spinal don’t completely sever it. Instead, an injury is more likely to cause fractures and compression of the vertebrae, which then crush and destroy the axons, extensions of nerve cells that carry signals up and down the spinal between the brain and the rest of the body. An injury to the spinal can damage a few or almost all of these axons. Some injuries will allow almost complete recovery while others will result in complete paralysis..
The spinal injuries contains the nerves that carry messages between your brain and the rest of the body. A spinal injury is very serious because it can cause loss of movement (paralysis) and sensation below the site of the injury.
