The Different Types of Spinal Cord Weakness

The distribution of weakness that you can see with spinal cord lesions has some interesting and very specific patterns. Trauma or compression from osteoarthritis or an acute traumatic injury, a tumor also can cause mass effect or be intramagilary in the cord. Transverse myelitis or other demyelinase being lesion, such as something on the neuromyelitis optic a spectrum. And of course, ischemia can happen in the spinal cord,. The anterior spinal artery territory is very prone to ischemic insult in certain cases.