Your thoracic nerves may have been damaged if you are experiencing any of these symptoms:
Thoracic Injury: Symptoms & Severity Score
The diaphragm is the primary muscle of respiration, and its weakness can lead to respiratory failure. Diaphragmatic palsy can be caused by various causes. Injury to the phrenic nerve during thoracic surgeries is the most common cause for diaphragmatic palsy.
Thoracic radiculopathy can develop if any of the thoracic nerves become inflamed, such as from a thoracic herniated disc or a narrowing of the foramen. Symptoms include pain, tingling, numbness, and/or weakness radiating along the nerve root.
A thoracic spine fracture, also called a vertebral compression fracture, happens when a bone in the spine collapses. This occurs most often in the lower vertebrae in the thoracic spine. Most thoracic spine fractures are due to accidents, such as an automobile accident, a fall or sports injury.
Major (high-energy) trauma, is the most common cause of thoracic fractures such as falls from height or road traffic accidents. Minor trauma can also cause a thoracic spine fracture in individuals who have a condition associated with loss of bone mass such as osteoporosis.
T14.90ICD-10 Code for Injury, unspecified- T14. 90- Codify by AAPC.
What is the ICD-10 Code for Spinal Cord Injury? The ICD-10 Code for spinal cord injury is S14. 109A.
There are many different types of spinal fractures: Compression, Burst, Flexion-distraction, and Fracture-dislocation.
The thoracic region of the spine begins at the base of the neck and ends at the area just below the chest area. This is the longest region of the spine that connects to the cervical spine and lumbar spine, and its function is to protect the spinal cord and to anchor the ribcage.
The injury diagnosis codes (or nature of injury codes) are the ICD codes used to classify injuries by body region (for example, head, leg, chest) and nature of injury (for example, fracture, laceration, solid organ injury, poisoning).
Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.
5 – Low Back Pain. ICD-Code M54. 5 is a billable ICD-10 code used for healthcare diagnosis reimbursement of chronic low back pain.
ICD-10 code G95. 20 for Unspecified cord compression is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Diseases of the nervous system .
Incomplete lesion of unspecified level of lumbar spinal cord, initial encounter. S34. 129A is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
000A for Wedge compression fracture of unspecified thoracic vertebra, initial encounter for closed fracture is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes .
Use secondary code (s) from Chapter 20, External causes of morbidity, to indicate cause of injury. Codes within the T section that include the external cause do not require an additional external cause code.
Note. Code to highest level of thoracic spinal cord injury. Injuries to the spinal cord ( S24.0 and S24.1) refer to the cord level and not bone level injury, and can affect nerve roots at and below the level given.
S24.1 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail. The 2021 edition of ICD-10-CM S24.1 became effective on October 1, 2020. This is the American ICD-10-CM version of S24.1 - other international versions of ICD-10 S24.1 may differ.