Cervical spinal cord injury upper extremity shoulder arm especially special itch considerations and nerve structure damage, dysfunction related.
Cervical spinal cord injury is more serious, often lead to spinal cord motor, sensory nerve conduction abnormality, manifested as limb movement disorder (such as tetraplegia), limb sensory abnormality (such as pain, touch, temperature sensation is weakened or disappeared), urinary and fecal incontinence, etc., and if the involvement of the intercostal muscles and diaphragm can cause respiratory difficulties.
If the cervical spinal cord injury involves the nerve structures related to itching, it can lead to neuropathic itching, which manifests as very obvious itching symptoms, episodic or persistent, and can often be accompanied by sensory abnormalities such as nociceptive hypersensitivity and numbness. Therefore, damage to the spinal cord segments corresponding to the upper extremities can result in particularly itchy skin on the shoulders and arms of the upper extremities.
When cervical spinal cord injury of the upper extremity shoulders and arms are particularly itchy, the treatment should be standardized under the guidance of a doctor to avoid delaying the condition.