if you break your back why are you in a wheelchair?

Answer 1

'breaking your back' is an incorrect term. You can break one or more of your vertebrea which is a 'tunnel' for you spinal cord and be fine once the bones are mended. The problem lies in breaking the vertebrea and then nicking or severing your spinal cord. The higher up the spinal column you sever the cord the more damage you do. In the cervical region (ones that come from your skull) if you damage the cord at C3 you will need mechanical assistance to breath and as you go down from that the level of damage decreases from complete paralysis to partial paralysis etc

Answer 2

Because if a person broke their back and damaged nerves in the spine, you would have to be in a wheelchair because you would have lost all or some control of walking or anything else from the damaged area of the spine down.

Answer 3

Ending up in a wheelchair is not what will happen to everybody. Only some people will need it to prevent spinal injury.

Answer 4

Your spinal column is protected by the vertebrae of your back (your backbone). The spinal column is a bunch of nerves that carries electrical signals from your brain to the rest of your body. When you break your backbone, bits of bone usually crush into the spinal cord, damaging or destroying it and stopping the signals from getting to where they're supposed to go, and stopping signals from below that point from reaching your brain.

The result is that you cannot move or feel anything below the affected point. Spinal cord tissue does not repair itself. Scientists hope that with stem cells, we will eventually be able to grow new spinal cord material and enable parapalegics to walk again.

Answer 5

because you need time to recover. if you break the spinal cord you won't be able to walk anymore and the wheelchair will help you get around

Answer 6

You don't always end up in a wheel chair (my friend is living proof to this) but if it's a severe break you sever your spinal cord which controls motor functions. Depending upon where you sever it, depends upon what parts of yo are paralysed.

Answer 7

relies upon on the way she heals i knew somebody with a broken arm and leg and he or she grow to be advantageous and didnt decide for a wheelchair after the casts got here off yet she did ought to apply crutches for a pair weeks

Answer 8

Because when you break your neck, the nerves in your spine will break. Because of this, nerve impulses won't reach your body, and you will be paralyzed, to some degree, varying from being unable to move your legs, to being unable to move any part of your body below your neck.

Answer 9

Because if you break your back and the spine is damaged, you can lose the use of your legs.

Answer 10

because braking your back can stop you walking as you can be paryilised so they get stuck in a wheel chair !i supose it is one up on dying lol