Spinal cord injury will cause impotence

Spinal cord injury will cause impotence

Damage is located in or higher than the cervical C4 to C5, can cause completeness limbs. If be located in C6 and C � cervical between July, can make the legs, wrists, hands attack. Damage such as located between with thoracic T11 T12 can affect laptop and knees leg muscles. Above injuries, which are can appear different degree of sexual obstacles such as erectile abnormal, impotence, etc. When damage is located in thoracic T12 to lumbar L3, can appear more serious sexual dysfunction, because the sympathetic thus dominated forth. When damage to the first 2, 3, 4, 5 sacral nerve or spinal cord cone, not only appeared to restore impotence, also can appear, the urine incontinence.

When the spine trauma occurred spinal cord injury, especially damage lumbosacral region nervous when can appear permanent impotence, the serious injury by nerve tissue or neurodegenerative process is not restored, is permanent. But oppressed nerve tissue often can resume its function. One week after an injury, if restore some action or feeling, then predictor of the future a good recovery. The penis neural control is a two-edged by sympathetic nerve fibers, both the domination, again by parasympathetic nerve (S2 ~ 4) command. Any function obstacle for six months and no progress, often will is permanent, so patients with spinal cord injury such as impotence, happened in half a year, which is unable to restore normal for a permanent impotence, with medication and general any other treatment effects are not very ideal.