It may seem like a silly question, but most people pay little attention to the spinal cord until they suffer a spinal cord injury or know that someone has suffered a spinal cord injury. Most people don’t know what the spinal cord is made up of, what each part does, and how the spinal cord transmits sensory and motor information. Many people think that the spinal cord conducts information like a telephone line and that rewiring it will repair the spinal cord. Some people mistakenly believe that the spinal cord is the spine. While almost everyone knows that a spinal cord injury can lead to paraplegia, many people do not know that the spinal cord also controls bowel movements, sexual function, blood pressure, blood flow to the skin, sweating, and body temperature regulation.