Can I recover from a spinal cord injury?

There are no exact statistics on the number of paraplegics caused by accidents in China each year. Figures from the United States show that there are about 10,000 new paraplegics every year, and it is believed that the number of paraplegics in China is at least several times higher than that. In those ever-expanding and extending highways, in one construction site after another, in the broken and dimly twisted tunnel of a small coal kiln and a small gold mine, tragedies are being created every day, and one by one, the claws of spinal cord injuries are whisking away the vitality of the people who should be shining and beating under the sunlight, and they are being pressed into wheelchairs and bedpans. In the face of this grim reality, medicine is almost at its wit’s end. While spinal surgery techniques for repositioning and immobilizing the spinal cord have improved greatly in recent years, there has been little progress in the treatment of the injured spinal cord itself. The spinal cord is a continuation of the brain, if the brain is compared to the human body’s command headquarters, then the spinal cord is like a communication center, the limbs and the body’s sensory information through the spinal cord to the brain, and the brain’s instructions through the spinal cord to the limbs and the body to command the appropriate muscle contraction or relaxation, so that the corresponding movement occurs. Like a cable with numerous wires, the spinal cord brings together various types of nerve cells and fibers from all over the body, including sensory nerves, motor nerves, and visceral vegetative nerves, which, although tightly packed together, have their own independent paths and exchange and transmission hubs in different parts of the body. This sophisticated anatomical structure and subtle biological functions within the spinal cord are the basic guarantee of sensation and movement in the human body. However, these nerve cells and fibers are very tender, in the absence of protection, only a small external force will make it damage, so in the process of human evolution, the spinal cord has been well protected, it is composed of vertebrae in the vertebral canal walk, under the protection of the vertebrae, the general external force is very difficult to make it damaged, only the organism in the role of abnormal external force of the spine dislocation or fracture, the spinal cord will be subject to The spinal cord is only damaged when the spine is dislocated or fractured by an extraordinary external force. Whether or not the function of the spinal cord can be restored after an injury is determined by the size of the blow to the spinal cord. If the spinal cord suffers a devastating blow locally, resulting in the total loss of all biological functions, it is called total paralysis in medical terms. So far, there is no effective treatment for total paralysis. It is virtually impossible to restore the delicate anatomy and function of the spinal cord. However, in most cases, the spinal cord is only partially damaged or not completely destroyed immediately due to the protection of the spine, and then active and correct treatment can maximize the recovery of spinal cord function. There are three main points in the treatment of acute spinal cord injury, i.e., correct transportation, timely medication, and surgical treatment to decompress the spinal cord as soon as possible. I remember more than ten years ago in Beijing, a policewoman was hit by a subway train while performing her official duties in a subway station, resulting in a spinal cord injury. Fortunately, there was a traveler at the scene who knew the relevant first aid knowledge and assisted in carrying the patient, so that the spinal cord injury was not aggravated, and the police officer returned to her workplace after recovery from the treatment. When carrying patients with spinal cord injury, it should be remembered that the patient’s torso or neck should not be flexed or extended at will, and the patient should be made to lie down, with the head and neck kept in a neutral and straight position, and when there are no professional transportation facilities, the patient can be carried lying down on a flat surface on top of a hard board. Strictly speaking, the efficacy of current medications for spinal cord injury is not exact. Methylprednisolone (MP) shock therapy is currently the only medication that is considered to be effective in inhibiting the process of lipid peroxidation in the injured spinal cord and reducing the secondary reactions in the spinal cord, however, it cannot improve the degree of primary spinal cord injury and should be applied within 8 hours after injury, which is the prime time for treatment of spinal cord injury. -However, it cannot improve the degree of primary spinal cord injury and should be applied within 8 hours after the injury. In our country’s reality, most of the spinal cord injury patients are difficult to be treated in the best time, firstly, because of the long time for patients to be transferred to the hospital, and secondly, because most of the grassroots hospitals or even quite a level of hospitals do not have enough awareness of the first aid treatment for the spinal cord injury patients, so that when the patients are examined by the specialists, and enter the wards after taking the X-rays, CTs, and MRIs in turn, they will long exceed the best time to be treated with the medication. The best time for medication. The correct treatment should be to give MP therapy within the golden time once the patient is diagnosed with spinal cord injury after arriving at the hospital, and to improve various necessary auxiliary examinations while treating the patient.GM-1 is another drug that is not limited by the time of injury and is recommended for the treatment of spinal cord injuries, which is able to promote the growth of nerve axons, but its effect is limited, and the Sanglangs who were treated with the drug are still confined to wheelchairs. The Sanlans who have been treated with this drug are still confined to their wheelchairs to show people that heartbreakingly bright smile. Regarding the surgical treatment of spinal cord injury patients, in the past, it was not classified as an emergency surgery. Nowadays, with the development of spinal surgery, surgical techniques, instruments and related equipment have been greatly developed, so that surgery can be carried out as soon as possible on such patients in hospitals with the necessary conditions. Current clinical reports show that early surgery can release the compression of the spinal cord as soon as possible, and at the same time stabilize the spinal column, which is conducive to the recovery of the injured spinal cord, as well as to the early movement and rehabilitation of the patient, and reduce the occurrence of complications. Although Sang Lan and Qu Leheng had serious spinal cord injuries, they were able to recover to their current state, which was inseparable from timely surgical treatment and good post-rehabilitation training. The study of central nervous activity is a high level study in life science. Although medicine has made great progress, the study of central nervous system, which is extraordinarily complex, has made slow progress, and every step of progress is so difficult, and every bit of achievement is exhilarating, because the progress of this little progress will bring human beings closer to the realization of the mystery of themselves. It is fair to say that without more breakthroughs in central nervous system research, the treatment of spinal cord injuries will not be greatly improved.