Aug 4, 2026 · 24 min · 10 segments
Spinal Cord Injury & Spinal Cord Syndromes — An OT-Led Clinical Guide Spinal cord injury isn’t just about paralysis — it’s about disrupted movement, sensation, autonomic control, identity, and…
And the other one would obviously be the opposite, which is a non-traumatic form of spinal cord injury.
So what would be a traumatic form of spinal cord injury? You would have road traffic accident, you can have falls, assault, sports injury, mechanical trauma, right? So that's the first one.
The non-traumatic spinal cord injury, on the other hand, would happen when there are instances like tumor, for example, there's an abscess, there's a disc herniation, vascular infarct.
And there are some degenerative conditions, for example.
So vascular infarct is the one that I have encountered today.
All right.
So very simple.
Do you know, here's a trivia.
A Latin for this condition is called transversus myelitis.
Huh? Right.
Transversus.
Transverse myelitis.
Inflammation of the myelin sheath.
Because myelo would have been the spinal cord.
All right.
There you go.
That's a trivia.
Now, let's talk about some of the classification, which is very, very important clinically.
So when it comes to classification of spinal cord injury, there are a few things that you need to consider.
First one being the level of injury.
And the level of injury would be the lowest intact neurological level, both on the sensory and the motor component, right? So very simple, the lowest intact sensory and motor aspect, then that would be the level of injury.
Now there will be some aspects in here, particularly in the level.
And the other one would obviously be the opposite, which is a non-traumatic form of spinal cord injury.
So what would be a traumatic form of spinal cord injury? You would have road traffic accident, you can have falls, assault, sports injury, mechanical trauma, right? So that's the first one.
The non-traumatic spinal cord injury, on the other hand, would happen when there are instances like tumor, for example, there's an abscess, there's a disc herniation, vascular infarct.
And there are some degenerative conditions, for example.
So vascular infarct is the one that I have encountered today.
All right.
So very simple.
Do you know, here's a trivia.
A Latin for this condition is called transversus myelitis.
Huh? Right.
Transversus.
Transverse myelitis.
Inflammation of the myelin sheath.
Because myelo would have been the spinal cord.
All right.
There you go.
That's a trivia.
Now, let's talk about some of the classification, which is very, very important clinically.
So when it comes to classification of spinal cord injury, there are a few things that you need to consider.
First one being the level of injury.
And the level of injury would be the lowest intact neurological level, both on the sensory and the motor component, right? So very simple, the lowest intact sensory and motor aspect, then that would be the level of injury.
Now there will be some aspects in here, particularly in the level.
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