What causes paraplegia?
Paraplegia is caused by damage to the spinal cord. The spinal cord is a string of nerves the thickness of your little finger in the bony vertebral canal. The damage is usually caused by an accident, or more rarely by disease, such as a tumor. Paraplegia often affects young people. The average age of those newly affected is 27. Paralysis is one of the worst things to affect your health that anyone can imagine. Can paraplegia be cured? As of yet, there is still no cure. The paralysis is irreversible, as damaged nerve cells do not regenerate. What are the first signs of paraplegia? Most people find they can no longer feel their legs immediately after the accident. The first signs of paraplegia are numbness and immobility in the legs, accompanied by extreme back pain. Once the accident victim has been rescued (which should only be done by qualified experts), they are operated on to fix the break in the dorsal vertebra. Depending on their injury, patients will have to spend several weeks in
