Welcome to episode 506 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts.

In today's podcast, we're going to be addressing a topic I love to call weird, but high-yield spinal cord disorders. Weird but high-yield spinal cord disorders.

These disorders that I'm going to talk about.

You don't find them in many resources, but they do show up on the USMLE's,

Step 1, Step 2, Step 3. do show up on the USMLE's step one step two step three so I want to discuss them so you can

basically have a collection have it well organized in one podcast so So again I will strongly encourage you pay attention to the stuff.

Don't sleep on it. All right. So the first thing we're going to discuss before we jump into the spinal cord is the following, right?

So what are the key pathways in the spinal cord? There's a ton, but what are the ones that are really exam worthy?

Obviously in the posterior part of the spinal cord we have the dorsal

columns. In the dorsal columns and nowhere we're going to give a bunch of

vignettes here. In the drossal columns that's what controls vibration per perception, fine touch,

fine touch, vibration per perception.

That's like the posterior third of the spinal cord.

And then if you look around the posterior slash lateral sides of the spinal cord, that's where we have the

cotticospinal tract. Remember at that point the cotticospinal tract has literally already crossed.

The corticospinal tracks as we know crosses in the corto medulla.

And it's called corticospinal because it starts in the cortex and ends in the spinal cord.

So the cortic spinal tracks are already crossed so whenever you have any dorsal column problem, I mean any

corticospinal track problems in the spinal cord,

what you're gonna notice is

you're gonna see ipsilateral symptoms.

So if you damage the cortical spinal tract on the left side,

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