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    Paraplegia, or paraparesis, is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities. The word comes from Ionic Greek (παραπληγίη) "half-stricken"...
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  • Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of inherited diseases whose main feature is a progressive gait disorder. The disease presents with progressive...
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  • Paraplegia is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities. The word comes from Ionic Greek (παραπληγίη) "half-stricken". It is...
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  • Spastic paraplegia 6 is a rare type of hereditary spastic paraplegia characterized by muscle tone and bladder anomalies associated with pes cavus and specific...
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  • Spastic paraplegia 31 is a rare type of hereditary spastic paraplegia which is characterized by sensation anomalies of the lower extremities. People with...
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  • Spastic paraplegia 15 (SPG15) is a form of hereditary spastic paraplegia that commonly becomes apparent during childhood or adolescence (e.g. between ages...
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  • Society (ISCoS) was founded in 1961 as the International Medical Society of Paraplegia. It is an INGO, whose purpose is to study all problems relating to lesions...
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  • paraplegia glaucoma precocious puberty Spastic paraplegia mental retardation corpus callosum Spastic paraplegia nephritis deafness Spastic paraplegia...
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    George H. W. Bush (category Politicians with paraplegia)
    George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 – November 30, 2018) was an American politician, diplomat, and businessman who served as the 41st president of...
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    The Paralyzed Veterans of America was established in 1946 with the goal of serving the needs of disabled veterans. The organization was created to assist...
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    Tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP), is a medical condition that causes weakness, muscle spasms, and sensory disturbance by human T-lymphotropic virus resulting...
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    intervertebral disc extrusion. In advanced stages, this disorder causes flaccid paraplegia (impairment of motor function in lower extremities), total areflexia (below...
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    disorders includes X-linked complicated corpus callosum dysgenesis, spastic paraplegia 1, MASA syndrome, and X-linked hydrocephalus with stenosis of the aqueduct...
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    intensive treatment Adjunctive treatment of spastic muscular paresis (paraplegia/tetraplegia) caused by cerebral or spinal cord conditions such as stroke...
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    Reasoning: A young woman with respiratory failure, hearing loss, and paraplegia". Neurology. 88 (10): e78–e84. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000003684. PMID 28265044...
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    (1982). "International Medical Society of Paraplegia first Ludwig Guttmann Memorial Lecture". Paraplegia. 20 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1038/sc.1982.1. PMID 7041053...
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    full recovery to permanent tetraplegia (also called quadriplegia) or paraplegia. Complications can include muscle atrophy, loss of voluntary motor control...
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  • most common cause of paraplegia and has no cure, but the individual may recover partial muscle control. This is when paraplegia does not fully effect...
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  • Spastic paraplegia 16 (complicated, X-linked recessive) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SPG16 gene. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center...
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    partial or total loss of function in the arms, legs, trunk, and pelvis. (Paraplegia is similar but affects the thoracic, lumbar, and sacral segments of the...
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    including advancing the understanding of myxoedema, Bright's disease, paraplegia and anorexia nervosa (for which he first established the name). A masonic/royal...
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt (category Politicians with paraplegia)
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president...
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    Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease classifications Palmoplantar keratoderma and spastic paraplegia Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies Hereditary motor neuropathies...
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    George Wallace (category Politicians with paraplegia)
    George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American politician and judge who served as the 45th governor of Alabama for four...
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    Larry Flynt (category People with paraplegia)
    Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. (/flɪnt/; November 1, 1942 – February 10, 2021) was an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP)....
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  • Regarding Paralysed and Amputee Athletes". Paraplegia. 23. International Medical Society of Paraplegia. Retrieved July 25, 2016. Vanlandewijck, Yves...
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  • used to pull oneself to a standing position. It is also used in testing paraplegia.[citation needed] Spinal muscular atrophy synd/1228 at Who Named It? W...
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  • Spastic paraplegia 23 (SPG autosomal recessive) is a 25cM gene locus at 1q24-q32. A genome-wide linkage screen has associated this locus with a type of...
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    000), neurological injury lasting longer than 1 year (1 in 240,000), paraplegia (1 in 250,000), and arachnoiditis. Rarely, an epidural may cause death...
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    the time of diagnosis. Complications may include a pleural effusion or paraplegia. It is a type of small round cell sarcoma. The cause of Ewing sarcoma...
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