Know Your Back ( SPINE )

A very strange mode of injury i saw recently. It happened so that a young boy , who used to work at a zoo as a cage cleaner. He one day while cleaning the cage of an Asiatic Lion forgot to close the divider door. The Lion punched him with a violent paw and look what the lion did to a human spine.... The image shows complete dislocation with a violent separation of vertebral column. Its a very mutilating injury. Looking to the image only one can say that spinal cord will be completely crushed and torn ( a transected spinal cord ). Patient has no control of lower limb with no control of bowel or bladder. Patient has no chance of recovery in such kind of injury to spinal cord with whatever doctors do. But we need to operate upon such patient so that we can allow early rehabilitation of the patient with wheelchair training. We operated upon the patient. Believe me , its a very very very tough job to reduce such kind of dislocation. But , reduction was complete post surgery. see the