Question

A client who has experienced a spinal cord injury has an ipsilateral loss of voluntary motor function and a contralateral loss of pain and temperature sensation. Based on these symptoms, which classification of spinal cord injury does the client have?

Answer 1

Answer:

Incomplete Spinal cord injury specifically, Brown-Sequard Syndrome

Explanation:

An incomplete spinal cord injury occurs when a patient retains some feeling below the site of the injury.

In a Brown-Sequard Syndrome is a result of damage to one half of the spinal cord resulting in paralysis and loss of proprioception on the same side as the injury or lesion, and loss of pain and temperature sensation on the opposite  side as the lesion.