Temperature regulation with a spinal cord injury
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Thanks, Brittney, for this very informative explanation. I was "hot natured" before my injury and now get cold quite easily. God bless! ❤
I stumbled across your Channel, I grew up around Paras and Quads, Wheel chair Basketball, Olympics, Going to Woodstock etc. in 1989 I crushed my spine jumping off a bridge, I instantly had my childhood flash through my mind, I made a decision "if I could Stand, I could Live, If not, take a deep breath of water". well I lived. all this time I could not figure out the temperature regulation issue. Thank you
Did knowing paras and quads help you when you were paralyzed? Did it make it easier to adjust?
Good information. I've been dealing with it since 85, as a C-6, C-7.
Meet someone new, and they want me to come along, on a hot summer day, and I explain, "it's to hot". How can it be too hot?
So explain, without sweating, I'm cooking inside. Or when I'm outside in the cold for to long. Takes forever to warm back up...
Oh, the joys of being in a chair. Now dealing with torn up rotator cuffs. Been fixed twice, all done, never again. Guess the arms aren't made for walking, the last 39 years. :)
Keep on with the great videos.
Yeah mine 37 years and my shoulders are also starting to give up.
I got Cerebral Palsy from birth, I'm 58-year-old man, and my legs get cold in winter, have wearing 2 pairs of leggings! Why do i feel cold my legs? I feeling in my legs! Many Thanks Cal
T-11 complete, I would also argue that your chair itself is a huge factor for temperature regulation. Most chairs are made of metal,plastic, carbon fiber, different kinds of padding all materials that are thermal insulators (probably more noticeably for heat). Being in a wheelchair in the direct sun in a black metal wheelchair that you cant easily get out of definitely makes it harder to cool off in my experience. It’s like constant insulation on your back and underside.
Great point!
Interesting. My girlfriend has a relatively very minor injury to her brain stem from a tumor + removal surgery + radiation treatment. Still almost entirely functional, but her temperature regulation has been wonky ever since, and this explains a lot of why. Thank you!
Thanks for explaining what is going on in the body!
You bet!
Great quick lecture that reassures my shivering on long cold nights. U r thee best Britney!!
You're the best!
Good info Brit… my friend who is a wheelchair tennis player has this issue…
Great explanation. Once again, I leave one of your videos more knowledgeable. Thank you.
Thanks for continuing to watch!!!
Great research Brittney! I found it interesting that goosebumps still occur. But the main thing that this reminded me of is that a person's Spinal Cord is so important for so many things. Before I "met" Empowered Para, I had no idea that any of this was affected; I knew that control of movement was usually lost but I didn't even know that loss of sensation was also affected. Certainly I didn't know that all these other functions were also affected. Brittney, thanks for teaching me all this!
I think this would help a quad, or anyone, who is over heated. I was watching Survivorman once and he was saying as long as the jugular vein is cool, you will be cool and to put a cold, wet bandana around your neck. I would think the jugular vein being cool would be different than signals not going up the spine, to the brain saying you're over heated.
I think you're right! Great suggestion. I think I've actually seen my friends out cold rags on their necks!
This was interesting 🤔, thank you ❤
You’re welcome 😊
Excellent explanation. I had a friend that was a quad. She pretty much went through the same hot/cold syndrome. I myself have spastic CP and described it to her as when a person gets the Flu. You go through hot/cold spell, although having spastic cp make it 10 times worse as I can't even move to grab a blanket during the cold spell.🥶
Great explanation Brittney, my legs and feet often feel cold but when I touch them, most of the time they're OK.
Me too!
Very intriguing explanation. For someone with a health science background I never thought of that. As a Fibromyalgia and POTS sufferer I can definitely say I have issues with temperature regulation and I blame that on autonomic nervous system dysregulation.
The nervous system is so fascinating!
Really good video and you explain everything so well. Hi from Manchester UK xx I’ve got Degenerative disc disease from L5-S1 and bad spasms in my legs which are painful and annoying. Oh shed loads of pain medications (Baclofen has been the most effective so I can walk upstairs at night n not crawl) xx need to go back and find your video I remember about spasms n pain meds xx xx xx
I have a lower spinal injury that injured the nerves to one leg. That leg is always freezing. It takes a really long time to warm up. Good to know. Thank you.
I have friend who has a spinal cord injury and of course have the very same problem
most of us do!
@@EmpoweredPara When I first met my friend and over the last ten years I have known her I have learned and been for want of better word been surprised by the sheer multitude of things that are affected by a spinal cord injury . She had an accident when she was nineteen . She is 53 now.
@@oxfamshop So many things are affected that we just don't realize:)
Thank you. I didn't understand how sweating was possible below the injury level. I thought it was good luck and was helping with cooling. Ah well, it's just occasional swamp butt.
lol yeah just blind reflexes that occasionally come in handy
13°C = 55.4F and 60°C =140F for those of us who use Fahrenheit. your information is very important. thanks
Thanks for the conversion!
I didn't knew that the temperature regulation was so important and much less how it really works.
I live with family and have paresis of my lower extremities due to nerve damage in my spine, and during the summer, my brother is obsessed with having the overhead fan on full blast constantly while he sits on the other side of the room from the fan and where I sit, it's right under the fan. I always complain about how freezing it is in the house with the fan on and then he also keeps the house below 70 during the summer but still always says how hot he is, while I'm sitting there with a blanket on and still freezing. He doesn't understand how I can be so cold while he says he's basically sweating. I'm L4-L5-S1.
Interesting.
A lot of good information. I was wondering. I have a friend who was researching his Cubine Corkadles and was using a Thermal Imaging camera to see how they distribute heat. OK I know this sounds way off base, BUt has anyone ever used one of these cameras on someone with a spinal injury to see how we can control our bodies or would it even be worth the trouble
Hello, I am an aspiring carnivore. :) I've been on the diet now for like 5 months. As such I am required to eat butter. My core temperature is fine. When eating loads of carbs my core temperature was way off the chart. My point is that you need more calories. Go to the fridge right now and eat half a sick of butter. I know that calories raised my core temp when eating Fritos with my beef and bean chilli. So get to the fridge ASAP and eat 1/2 stick of butter. For more information, check out Steak and Butter Gal on UA-cam.
The fat within will also regulate your hormones better.
sorry about your injury. I bummed my shoulder and it's a nightmare.
lol I wish I could eat a whole stick of butter. Unfortunately being paralyzed means waaaaay lower metabolic tissue so I have to watch my calories. But I eat quite a bit for my size!
Could you please do a video on if you have a spinal cord injury would that effect leg spasms and should it be something to be scared of thanks
T9 incomplete, I had it always warm and nice but now it’s complete disorder, I can shiffer by 25 degrees and hour later I die almost and sweat like a horse, and last (first winter) it was hel so cold had so much pain cold triggers nerve pain in my legs also, And I can still move my legs but feeling is complete disordered (can’t walk only stand for kopple of seconds… But that’s so weird to experience, thxs for your information again 😉 but lower as th1 also bodytemperature problems here… Grtzzz from Holland..
You're drafted.
A friend's daughter wants ME to explain scientifical stuff about biology/chemistry.
The only thing I remember is RNA is a messenger.
And thanks to Young Frankenstein, there is something called a "mendula oblongata".
haha..well as least you remember something!
I am C5-7 incomplete (broke C1-2 also but didn't hit spinal cord) and I wore a blanket on top my head 18 years it rubbed part of my head bald lol. But somehow 3 years ago I got to where I barely notice it. I don't know why, but too bad it took so long.
I have progressive MS with lesions on my spine that largely affect my lower extremities, but also my hands a bit and more overall my body than just SPI. I am very sensitive to both heat and cold.
MS and spinal cord injury are cousins so it makes sense you'd have similar symptoms!
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After a spinal cord injury do the severed nerves die or can they been reattached? Thank you. ❤
Depends on the severity of the injury. Damaged nerves in the spine typically don't regenerate
As Britt said. But I will add, some injuries are from spinal compression, others are from severance, then there are those from spinal cord infarcture where the nerves are starved of blood oxygen. Those die and will never (in today's world) come back. Not even partially.
Can you move your legs
no, not voluntarily. I have spasms but those are just reflexes that I can't control