The nurse is caring for a patient who has a spinal cord injury at the level of C-6. The patient displays the following symptoms: loss of motor function on the ipsilateral side of the injury, loss of temperature and pain sensation on the contralateral side. What type of injury did this individual most likely suffer?
Posterior cord injury
Anterior cord injury
Central cord injury
Brown-Sequard injury
The Correct Answer is D
A. Posterior cord injury usually affects proprioception rather than causing a distinctive pattern of motor and sensory loss.
B. Anterior cord injury generally impacts motor function and temperature and pain sensation bilaterally, not in a hemisection pattern.
C. Central cord injury primarily affects motor function in the upper extremities and is not characterized by ipsilateral motor and contralateral sensory loss.
D. Brown-Sequard syndrome typically presents with motor function loss on the same (ipsilateral) side of the injury and loss of pain and temperature sensation on the opposite (contralateral) side, making this the most likely diagnosis.
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