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Paraplegia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It is usually spastic: it results in an increased muscle tone in the affected limbs. |
| | Causes range from trauma (acute spinal cord injury: transsection or compression of the cord, usually by bone fragments from vertebral fractures) to tumors (chronic compression of the cord), myelitis transversa and multiple sclerosis. |
| | Sometimes, paralysis of both legs can result from injury to the brain (bilateral injury of the motor cortex controlling the legs, e.g. |
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