When you are told your spinal cord injury is incomplete, it means your spinal cord is not severed, or is still intact, but that it has been damaged. This condition is likened to bending an electrical cord in half, resulting in some of the wires losing the ability to fully conduct an electrical current. The spinal cord is part of the nervous system and it works much like the electrical wiring in your house – it functions to conduct nerve impulses from the brain and the body.
