What is a C4 ASIA a spinal cord injury?

What is a C4 ASIA a spinal cord injury?

A C4 spinal cord injury occurs when damage is dealt about mid-way down the cervical spinal cord — the topmost portion of the spinal cord that is located in the neck and upper shoulders.

What is the ASIA Impairment Scale?

The American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) impairment scale or AIS describes a person’s functional impairment as a result of a SCI. This scale indicates how much sensation a person feels after light touch and a pin prick at multiple points on the body and tests key motions on both sides of the body.

What is Asia a paraplegia?

First, instead of no function below the injury level, ASIA A is defined as a person with no motor or sensory function preserved in the sacral segments S4-S5. This definition is clear and unambiguous. ASIA B is essentially identical to Frankel B but adds the requirement of preserved sacral S4-S5 function.

What is the average life expectancy of a quadriplegic?

Patients aged 20 years at the time they sustain these injuries have a life expectancy of approximately 35.7 years (patients with high tetraplegia [C1-C4]), 40 years (patients with low tetraplegia [C5-C8]), or 45.2 years (patients with paraplegia).

What is the Asia classification?

The ASIA Impairment Scale assigns the SCI a grade based on its severity. Grades range from A to E, with A being the most severe injury and E being the least severe. Grade A. Complete sensory or motor function loss below the level of injury.

How do you classify ASIA scale?

What is the ASIA Impairment Scale?

1. Grade A: The impairment is complete. There is no motor or sensory function left below the level of injury.
2. Grade B: The impairment is incomplete.
3. Grade C: The impairment is incomplete.
4. Grade D: The impairment is incomplete.
5. Grade E: The patient’s functions are normal.

Is Asia a complete or incomplete?

Motor function is preserved below the neurological level, and more than half of key muscle functions below the single neurological level of injury have a muscle grade less than 3. ASIA D = Motor Incomplete.

How is an ASIA test done?

The test includes a sensory exam, a muscle strength exam, and a rectal exam. You will be lying on your back during most of the test. You may be asked to roll to your side when the sensation is tested on your buttocks.