Each facet joint is connected to a capsular ligament. The cauda equina is a fanning bundle of lumbar and sacral nerve roots exiting the spinal cord. The cordtypically terminates at the L1-L2 level ...

The cauda equina is the lumbar and sacral nerve roots extending from the lowest part of the spinal cord. It fills the thecal sac from approximately L2 to S1. Symptoms include urinary retention or ...

A spinal cord injury (SCI) is the occurrence of an acute traumatic damage to the spinal cord or nerves roots within the spinal column, including the cauda equina, that results in temporary or ...

Areflexic, or flaccid, bladder and bowels occur when the spinal cord injury is low enough to damage the cauda equina and alpha motor neurons. It also occurs in all spinal cord injury patients during ...