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Super quick easy question about spinal shock?

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During spinal shock, are all spinal reflexes gone, or only reflexes below the lesion. Thanks :)

first line of the Wikipedia article:

Spinal shock was first defined by Whytt in 1750 as a loss of sensation accompanied by motor paralysis with initial loss but gradual recovery of reflexes' date=' following a spinal cord injury (SCI) – most often a complete transection. [b']Reflexes in the spinal cord caudal to the SCI are depressed (hyporeflexia) or absent (areflexia), while those rostral to the SCI remain unaffected.[/b]

I added the emphasis.

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