Posts tagged spinal cord injury
Rethinking Acute Traumatic Central Cord Syndrome

The patient in this case is a 64-year-old male with a history of hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, rheumatic heart disease, and a previous C3-C6 laminectomy and fusion who presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with a chief complaint of new-onset, bilateral upper extremity weakness and paresthesia following an unwitnessed fall…

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Time is Brain, Time is Testicle, Time is…Spine?

A 56 year-old right hand dominant male presented to the emergency department with weakness in his bilateral hands, worse on the left. For the last several months, he had been having daily neck pain and frequent occipital headaches. He had been dropping things more frequently, but noticed over the previous week that he had increasing difficulty getting dressed in the morning. He used to be very active, but began using a walker last year because of frequent falls from what he described as always “feeling off-balance”. He also endorsed intermittent tingling in all fingers of his left hand.

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