down the meaning of this condition caudal is the medical term that basically means tail or towards the tail region so caudal implies it's the lower or bottom portion of a person's body on the opposite side cephalad means towards the head so caudal regression syndrome is a syndrome or collection of abnormalities or problems within the body that's due to absence or abnormal development of the lower or caudal portion of the spinal column our entire spinal column can be divided into different regions the top is the cervical spine which has nerves exiting it that control particularly the movement of our arms the thoracic spinal column has nerves that control our muscles to help with breathing and our core muscles as we get lower the lumbar and sacral regions of the spine control the muscle movement in our legs but the function of some of our internal organs like our heart our lungs our bladder and even our intestines are also controlled from part of our nervous system originating from these different levels in the spine for example the nerves leaving near the sacrum are very important in controlling the function of the bladder and the intestines so if you completely remove the sacrum and its associated nerves not only are you going to have poor movement in your legs but you're also going to have potential problems with controlling your bowel in your bladder as you might expect with most things in medicine we have a classification system that can give additional insight on what exactly is happening with this condition but before we take a look at that i want to give a shout out to the sponsor of today's video today's video is sponsored by magic spoon the healthy cereal that's made for adults but tastes like it was made for kids growing up i absolutely loved having that super sweet sugary cereal for breakfast in the morning but now as a doctor and somebody who exercises a lot i understand the importance of putting good healthy food inside your body but i want to eat my cereal thankfully there's magic spoon with zero grams of sugar NUMBER_TOKEN grams of protein and only three net carbs at just NUMBER_TOKEN calories it's something you can enjoy but also is healthy it comes in four flavors including cocoa fruity frosted and blueberry and you can try them all in a variety pack today it's keto-friendly gluten-free grain-free soy-free low-carb and gmo free use the link below to head over to URL_TOKEN brianmd and pick up a variety pack and get free shipping on your order and their NUMBER_TOKEN happiness guarantee that's right if you don't like it you can get your money back no questions asked so don't give up on your delicious cereal just because you're getting older start eating something that's healthy for you and also delicious thanks again to magic spoon for sponsoring the video and let's get back to our learning the rinshaw classification system was developed to give the four different types of caudal regression syndrome that somebody might have this first picture is normal anatomy so we have the vertebral column we have a complete sacrum connected to the hip bones and the pelvis in type NUMBER_TOKEN caudal regression syndrome we have absence of at least part of one half of the sacrum so here in this picture you can see that this side of the sacrum is still intact but we're missing half of that sacrum and along with that can mean that you're missing some of the nerves on that half of the sacrum in type NUMBER_TOKEN now you're
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