How to treat spinal cord injury with numbness in the limbs

Numbness of limbs after spinal cord injury is a common symptom after injury, the specific treatment plan is mainly combined with the cause of the disease to control, common causes include fracture, spondylitis and tumors, etc. The treatment plan mainly includes surgery, medication, radiotherapy and daily care. 1. Fracture: Vertebral compression fracture, displacement of bone fragments to the spinal cord will cause compression, will cause corresponding symptoms, the need for surgery to remove broken bone fragments, reduce the compression, can be coupled with nutritive drugs, such as methylcobalamin and so on. Early attention should be paid to avoiding strenuous exercise, and dietary attention should be paid to nutritional matching. 2. Spondylitis: mainly caused by infection or autoimmune system factors, accompanied by viral infection can be applied to antiviral drugs, such as acyclovir, etc.; in addition, hormone shock therapy can be applied, such as dexamethasone, etc.; accompanied by obvious edema, can be applied to reduce edema, such as mannitol drugs. 3. Tumor: the main causes of spinal cord injury include intramedullary (astrocytoma, etc.) and extramedullary tumors (spinal meningioma), which can be operated as early as possible through surgical resection, and cannot be operated, mainly symptomatic treatment, and some of them can be controlled by radiotherapy, and the commonly used chemotherapeutic drugs include cisplatin. After the spinal cord injury, there is obvious numbness of the limbs continue to aggravate, should be promptly admitted to the hospital for observation, through the examination to confirm the diagnosis of the cause of the disease, standardized treatment under the guidance of clinicians.