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    • December 26, 2023 at 5:27 pm #489499
      Karen C
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      If someone has posterior cord syndrome, wouldn’t the Lateral Corticospinal tract also be affected to some extent and therefore strength would be affected?

    • December 28, 2023 at 9:35 am #489503
      Chrissy Durrough Lugge
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      Hi Karen,
      I think the thumbnail image on the posterior cord syndrome slide might be deceiving. Posterior cord syndrome is a lesion isolated to the area of distribution of the posterior spinal artery, which is really just the dorsal column-medial lemniscus tracts.

      In practice, things are rarely that clean and other tracts may be affected by a traumatic injury – but true posterior cord syndrome is isolated to sensory changes.

      Chrissy

    • December 30, 2023 at 5:24 pm #489504
      Karen C
      Participant

      THANK YOU!! That helps!

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