CASE 1: You’re working with a 29 year old single female at a…

CASE 1: You’re working with a 29 year old single female at an inpatient rehab facility who was recently admitted after sustaining a spinal cord injury to her T10 (Mid-trunk level) region on the L side after a car accident.  She has a dog that she enjoys hiking with, and works as a nanny to 3 children.  Her chart shows it was a hemi-section of her spinal cord, diagnosed as Brown-Sequard Syndrome and she can ambulate with a quad cane.   What and where would you expect the sensory loss to include (sensory loss-2 points, location-3 points)

CASE 3: You’ve received a chart for an elderly gentleman who…

CASE 3: You’ve received a chart for an elderly gentleman who was recently hospitalized for a viral disease that affected his spinal cord in the L2-L3  region called Anterior Horn Cell Syndrome. Given your knowledge that L2-L3 innervates hips flexion and knee extension, Is this considered an UMN and/or LMN lesion? (1 point)