Why must a healthcare worker treat a patient with a suspected spinal injury differently from a patient without a suspected spinal injury?

A suspected spinal injury requires extra care because movement can worsen damage to the spinal cord or surrounding structures. This damage may lead to permanent loss of movement or sensation, so the patient should be kept as still as possible while help is obtained. Choice B gives this reason; spinal-injury patients are not always unconscious.

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