Spinal cord injury levels tell us the extent to which a person is injured.

When a person is injured, it is good for the rescuer to try and perform some tests that will help assess the victim's injury. There are two spinal cord injury levels that require to be inspected. There are primary tests that are done and then there follows the secondary tests. All these spinal cord injury levels tests are done to ensure that the person's accurate analysis is done so that he can get the right medication and treatment. Here is a way that you can use to analyze whether a person has spinal injury:

1. Try to get the rough information of the victim. You should try to find out what happened to him and at what time it was. The patient should be capable of remembering the details. There are sometimes that the patient can not answer the questions accurately; this means that the person can be in a critical condition that requires fast analysis.

2. Establish the likelihood that the person you are dealing with is under the influence of drugs. If you sense any, then the patient is unreliable and you will have to exploit other methods.

3. Establish interrupting pain streams. Depending on the spinal cord injury levels, victims get seasonal pains that ca be a great distraction.

4. Perform a simple spinal test. Press a fingernail and toe nail and observe the time it would take blood to flow in again. If it takes more than two seconds, that is an indication of spinal injury resulting to unstable blood flow.

5. If the person is still conscious, tell him to move his fingers and toes. A person with spinal injury can't move any of these parts. A person also appears abnormally weak. This is due to the failure of the nerves. This person is normally even not capable of turning his body. The paramedics are supposed to carry him carefully to avoid increasing injuries to the victim.

6. Massage the fingers and the toes gently. A spinal injury would make these parts very stiff. Squeeze them gently to see whether there is any response of any king. If there isn't, that means that the patient has been injured in the spine resulting to paralysis of the nervous system.

7. Squeeze the victim's spinal column gently. Observe whether there is any response that emanates with each touch. Start from the nape of the neck going downwards. The victim will respond to the touches that you make depending on the spinal cord injury levels sustained.