Question

1. Hypotension is one of the secondary systemic injury in spinal cord injury.

True or False

2. After acute spinal cord injury, neurons and cells go through cellular alterations, such as neutrophils and anti-inflammatory cytokine releases.

True or False

3. After spinal cord injury, patients typically go through cycle of deconditioning with low physical activity leading to high risk factors and chronic diseases, and get worse.

True or False

4. Decreased cardiovascular performance may be found in individuals with complete spinal cord injury above T6 because they have no cardiac sympathetic innervation which can limit peak heart rate to ~130 bpm.

True or False

5. Musculoskeletal impairment is a typical characteristic of cerebral palsy.

True or False

Answer 1

1True because vascular dysfunctions are common complications of spinal cord injury .Spinal shock occurs during the acute phase following injury . Neurogenic shock,part of spinal shock , consists of severe arterial hypotension and bradycardia.

2.True-Inflammatory response is induced by various cells to promote debris clearance.

3.true - increases risk for cardiovascular diseases , hypertension,etc

4. True -there is total autonomic dysreflexia in this case.

5. True ....mostl