Spinal Cord Injury
The spinal cord is the collection of nerves that travels from the medulla (bottom of the brain) right down your back. There are 31 pairs of nerves that leave the spinal cord and connect to the arms, legs, chest and abdomen. These nerves transfer the commands of the brain to your muscles and cause the movement.
The spinal cord injury occurs when there is damage to the spinal cord either from trauma or loss of blood supply, or compression from tumour or infection. The most crucial part of the spinal cord injury is that they don’t have the ability to recover by itself. For recovering you need to get a surgery done by the specialist.
The cause for the spinal cord injury is -
• Fall from heights.
• Violence (eg: Stabbing knife or gunshots the spine)
• Sport injuries (eg: rugby, football etc.)
Our aim is to diagnose a spinal cord injury. The patients’ medical history will be recorded by asking question and getting the details of the injury. We will try our best to give the patient treatment, the quicker the surgery the better are the chances of recovery. After the physical check-up we will obtain the x rays of spine. The x-ray will help us to identify the fracture or the tumour between the vertebrae. Sometimes, the spinal cord injury happens because of the severe arthritis. After the x-ray we will take the CT scan and the MRI scan to confirm the evidence of the injury within the spinal cord.
Which hospital is best for the spinal cord in Chennai?
Chennai has so much well reputed and affordable spine surgery hospitals with high quality doctors. The best hospitals are well equipped with advanced machines and innovative technologies. If you are searching a spine doctor, I would suggest you Dr. Karunakaran Sivasubramanian, who is currently working in Chennai. He is currently working on the Director of Institute of Advanced Spine Services, Gleneagles Global Hospital, Chennai. He has been working as a spine doctor for 22 years. He is one of the fine doctors who can exclude your spine problems that you have been enduring for so much time. You can go to him and get your appointment here. He is even the first South Indian to have used INSPACE- interspinous implant for lumbar canal stenosis-Key hole spine surgery local anesthesia.