You have been called to an indoor rock-climbing gym, where a patient fell off the top of the rock climbing wall after a rope failed. The patient is conscious and alert, answering questions appropriately. The patient is complaining of mid-back pain, numbness and paralysis to the right leg, and loss of pain sensation in the left leg. You suspect which spinal cord injury?

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You have been called to an indoor rock-climbing gym, where a patient fell off the top of the rock climbing wall after a rope failed. The patient is conscious and alert, answering questions appropriately. The patient is complaining of mid-back pain, numbness and paralysis to the right leg, and loss of pain sensation in the left leg. You suspect which spinal cord injury?






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