Ottawa Personal Injury Lawyer, David Hollingsworth www.ottawainjury.ca

Customarily, there are two stages of Spinal Cord Injury i.e. Primary Stage and Secondary Stage
The primary injury illustrates the initial physical trauma to the spine which may occur through severe fall, car accident, and any other such kind of traumatic incident.
Initially, primary injury is the result of neurological injury or spinal cord injury, possibly occur from:

I.Physical compression of the spinal cord/nerves: Due to injury, the bone, disc, and or ligament compressed the tissues and narrow down the spinal canal or sometimes also change its alignment. Consequently, nerves squeezed.
II.Stretch of the tissues: The spinal cord could be pathetically injured even in the condition of the least trauma attributed to it directly.
III.Blood supply mutilation: Due to injury, the inner capillary network or microscopic blood vessels could be smashed immediately. Resultantly cause instant hemorrhage or bleeding into the cord.

However, the injury of the spinal cord can be diagnosed on an MRI just after trauma.

The secondary injury is the cascade effects of the incidents in the body following the primary trauma. Nevertheless, for the occurrence of secondary injury, there is no fixed time, it could occur after seconds, hours, days, and even weeks. Abreast, there are numerous factors that determine the severity of the secondary injury. In the condition of secondary injury, body releases flow of chemicals in response to the trauma. Subsequently, these chemicals cause inflammation, reduce spinal cord blood flow, and ultimately cells die.
Treatment of the spinal cord injury is normally aimed at steps involved in the series of injury with the following distinctive objectives:

a.lessening inflammation
b.reducing degradation and cell death
c.escalating blood flow
d.diminishing scar formation

Primarily, the motto of treatment of the spinal cord injury is to concentrate on alleviating the injury. Afterwards, when it accomplished to its fullest, then the two other objectives of treatment focused viz ….

i.transplanting nerves
ii.nerve rejuvenation

I found this infomation on a related law blog and thought you might find it useful. I currently have several clients with a spinal cord injury and I understand how this is an incredibly difficult time for you, your family and your friends.  If you need more information on spinal cord injuries, or have suffered a spinal cord injury, or simply want to speak with a personal injury lawyer in the Ottawa area, please visit www.ottawainjury.ca or call; 613-978-9549.  You are under no obligation and I would be happy to help in anyway I can by offering you some of the resources that have helped my clients or simply listening and finding out how I can help.

-Take care and be safe out there !

David Hollingsworth, Ottawa Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer