Bret stops on a tack and immediatoly falls down. Ho is mystificd why this happen
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Question
Bret stops on a tack and immediatoly falls down. Ho is mystificd why this happened, since he was completely unaware he stepped on the tack. Why doos this happen. Idcntify the approximate spinal cord segment or segments where the lesion is found and the specific location of the lesion in the segment. For the sccond part of this problem, sketch the spinal cord segment complete with the neural conncctions (copy from the picture in your text or in the PP presentation). Then mark where the lesion occurs which accounts forExplanation / Answer
The approximate spinal cord segment is the LUMBAR SEGMENT POSTERIOR COLUMN where the lesion is found.
The spinal cord consists of 31segments out of which 8 is cervical,12 is thoracic,5 islumbar,5sacral and 1coccygeal.