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Spinal Cord Injury: Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Injuries. Paraplegia is the paralysis of both lower limbs resulting (with exceptions) from a spinal cord injury, most often the result of some sort of trauma caused by accidents, but sometimes due to medical conditions (illness).
Tetraplegia is caused by damage to the brain or the spinal cord at a high level C1âC7âin particular, spinal cord injuries secondary to an injury to the cervical spine. The injury, which is known as a lesion, causes victims to lose partial or total function of all four limbs, meaning the arms and the legs.