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aiden_csi (aiden_csi) wrote in fiction_queries,
@ 2008-04-19 15:44:00

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Medical questions.
I googled this but can't understand head or tails so I hope someone can help.

I'm writing several disability fics and need some info. First can an incomplete paraplegic still have an erection and jaculate?
Second can he/she have a normal bowel and bladder function?

I read somewhere about bone overgrowth in amputated limbs aspecially with war amputees. So can it be operated or does it come back and can it get so worse that the person can't wear a prostatic?

Someone who is born with arthrogryposis sometimes has clubfeet too specially when it effects the lower limbs and also that when operated on it can still come back, can that person still walk or is he/she confined to a wheelchair?

I know this is a lot but all the English medical terms are just a lot of well you know, so please if anyone can give me an answer, plain english please. *hugs* Thanks a bunches.

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chichirinoda
2008-04-19 04:08 pm UTC (link)

I'm no doctor, so please take what I'm about to say with a large grain of salt, but.

I would imagine that it is possible for partial paraplegics to have erectile function and/or bladder/bowel control. If they're a paraplegic because their spinal cord was cut, it all just depends on where and how completely that cord was cut. If it's a partial, or between certain vertebrae, I imagine the legs could go out without the sort of pelvic area being affected.

The caveat being that I don't recall from my anatomy classes just which of those big main nerves insert where down there. If the ones that control the legs are higher up than the ones that control the bowels, etc., then it would be impossible. But generally things are in order, so you'd think the pelvic region would be controlled by nerves that attach to the spinal cord higher up than the ones that control the legs.

I'll bet you'd be able to find a diagram online that shows the spinal cord and the big nerves, and which show which nerve controls what. I know there was one in my anatomy textbook. Then you just take a line and slash it where you want. Everything above the line works, everything below doesn't.

I don't know enough about the other stuff you asked about to even make a guess, though. Good luck!

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	aiden_csi 2008-04-19 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks I actualy found something that is usefull. I found a diagram. hugs Thanks, hope someone else can answer the rest. Still researching myself though. grins (Reply to this) (Parent)

	janet555 2012-01-20 03:26 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for your post and welcome to check: here. (Reply to this)