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Paraplegia

Paraplegia: Introduction

Paraplegia: Paralysis of legs and sometimes lower body. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Paraplegia is available below.

Symptoms of Paraplegia

• Leg paralysis
• Lower body paralysis
• Bladder control problems
• Bladder incontinence
• Fecal incontinence
• more symptoms...»

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Home Diagnostic Testing

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Paraplegia?

• Misdiagnosis of Paraplegia
• Failure to diagnose Paraplegia
• Hidden causes of Paraplegia (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
• Undiagnosed: Paraplegia

Paraplegia: Related Patient Stories

• Completely debilitating symptoms with no diagnosis
• Complete exhaustion, fatigue, disoriented after workout
• Constant, extreme "motion sickness" from ANYTHING, much more
• Extreme Sensitivity to Sound
• From fully functional to debilitating in 2 years, no real answers
• Completely perplexed by mystery illness
• Blackout but still conscious & functioning
• extreme nausea
• extreme leg discomfort
• Extreme flatulence stops and swelling starts.
• Very extreme photophobia
• Completely debilitating symptoms with no diagnosis
• complete lack of libido
• extremely confused
• Extreme amnesia, loss of balance, many other serious symptoms... please help
• extreme nausea
• extremely early menopause
• Extreme Resistance U500
• CFS/ME, something else, or am I completely nuts?
• need extreme help

Paraplegia: Deaths

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Types of Paraplegia

• Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
• more types...»

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Causes of Paraplegia

• Spinal cord injury
• Accidents
• Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia with joint laxity - paraplegia
• Fibrocartilaginous embolism - paraplegia
• Spinal fracture
• more causes...»

See full list of 78 causes of Paraplegia

More information about causes of Paraplegia:

• Underlying causes of Paraplegia
• Paraplegia as a complication caused by other conditions
• Paraplegia as a symptom
• Medical news summaries relating to Causes of Paraplegia

Disease Topics Related To Paraplegia

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• Tumours
• Vertebral fracture
• Myelitis trabsversa
• Stroke
• more related diseases...»

Paraplegia: Undiagnosed Conditions

Commonly undiagnosed diseases in related medical categories:

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• more undiagnosed conditions...»

Misdiagnosis and Paraplegia

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Vitamin B12 deficiency under-diagnosed: The condition of Vitamin B12 deficiency is a possible misdiagnosis of various conditions, such as multiple sclerosis (see symptoms of multiple sclerosis). See symptoms of Vitamin B12...read more »

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Paraplegia: Research Doctors & Specialists

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• Muscle and Orthopedic Specialists:
  • Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine
  • Orthopedic Surgery
• Nerve Specialists:
  • Neurology (Brain/CNS Specialists)
  • Pediatric Neurology (Child Brain Specialist)
  • Spinal Cord Injury Medicine
• more specialists...»

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Paraplegia: Animations

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Research about Paraplegia

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Clinical Trials for Paraplegia

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Paraplegia include:

• Nuclear Magnetic Spectroscopy Imaging to Evaluate Primary Lateral Sclerosis, Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• SPATAX: Clinical and Genetic Analysis of Cerebellar Ataxias and Spastic Paraplegias - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Retraining Walking After Spinal Cord Injury - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Medico-Economical Impact of the Brindley Neurosurgical Technique in France - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Exercise to Reduce Obesity in Spinal Cord Injury - This study is not yet open for patient recruitment (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• more trials...»

See full list of 12 Clinical Trials for Paraplegia

Statistics for Paraplegia

• Medical statistics for Paraplegia
• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Paraplegia
• Death and Mortality statistics for Paraplegia
• Society statistics for Paraplegia

Paraplegia: Broader Related Topics

• Spinal Cord Disorders
• Spinal cord injury
• Paralysis
• Neuromuscular conditions
• Muscle conditions
• Nervous system conditions
• more types...»

Types of Paraplegia

Paraplegia Message Boards

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Definitions of Paraplegia:

Paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma) - (Source - WordNet 2.1)

Paraplegia is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Paraplegia, or a subtype of Paraplegia, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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