My friend has the same injury as me but he can feel his legs and I cant. Why are injuries at the same level different?
The amount of movement and sensation you have will depend on which parts of the spinal cord have been damaged. Those parts of your friend’s spinal cord responsible for transmitting sensory information have been saved while those responsible for controlling movement may have been damaged. What is the difference between a complete and incomplete injury? ‘Complete’ describes injuries where there is effectively no transmission of signals across a spinal cord lesion, with no voluntary control of movement or perception of sensations below the lesion. ‘Incomplete’ injuries are those where some of the pathways across the spinal cord lesion are undamaged. The outcome can be extremely variable and depends on which parts of the spinal cord are damaged.
