Article: Paralysis

Paralysis

Sang Lan s Story

What Is Paralysis?

How Does a Person Become Paralyzed?

Signs and Symptoms

Diagnosis

Is Paralysis Treatable?

Living with Paralysis

Will There Ever Be a Cure?

Resources

Paralysis (pa-RAL-i-sis) is the inability to consciously control the movement of the muscles.

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Muscular system

Nervous system

Spinal cord injury

Sang Lan s Story

As she was warming up for her routine at the July 1998 Goodwill Games, 17-year-old Chinese gymnast Sang Lan prepared to jump over the vaulting horse, a move she had performed thousands of times. But Sang flung herself too forcefully into the ...

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