Sentences with phrase «abnormality affects nerve»

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Usually these lesions will produce postural reaction deficits or additional cranial nerve abnormalities on the affected side, which aid in determining on which side a lesion is located.

Gait abnormalities, such as ataxia, paresis, or paralysis, may be present if secondary spinal cord or nerve root compression occurs.2 When neurologic signs are present, they correlate to the location of the discospondylitis lesion; cervical vertebral column lesions may cause tetraparesis and neck pain; thoracolumbar lesions may cause pelvic limb paresis, proprioceptive ataxia, and back pain; and lumbosacral lesions may cause a stiff, stilted pelvic limb gait.1, 2 Discospondylitis can affect any area of the vertebral column, but the most commonly affected sites are L7 to S1, caudal cervical, mid-thoracic, and the thoracolumbar spine.

Another theory is that affected dogs have an abnormality involving the stretch mechanism and the proprioceptive pathway of the head — i.e., the trigeminal nerve.