Why Does the Person Who Has a Spinal Cord Injury

question 1

Multiple Choice

Why does the person who has a spinal cord injury experience faulty control of sweating and radiation causing them to assume the temperature of the air?

• A) Because the hypothalamus is unable to regulate body heat as a result of sympathetic nervous system damage
• B) Because the thalamus is unable to regulate body heat as a result of sympathetic nervous system damage
• C) Because the hypothalamus is unable to regulate body heat as a result of parasympathetic nervous system damage
• D) Because the hypothalamus is unable to regulate body heat as a result of damage to spinal nerve roots

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