Baldwin, 53, suffers from spastic paraplegia, uses crutches, and says using cannabis helped to combat debilitating leg spasms.
Baldwin, who suffers from spastic paraplegia and needs crutches to walk, did not have to pay any more.
Degenerative diseases of the human motor system studied at Sheffield include motor neuron disease (MND) and hereditary spastic paraplegia.
Dieticians normally decrease the amount of calories by 5 percent for those with paraplegia and 10 to 15 percent for those with tetraplegia (quadriplegia).
Indeed, it does not seem to have occurred to any one to compare the muscular strength in the various kinds of paraplegia.
Lower lesions, causing paraplegia, are less likely to affect breathing.
Paraplegia from injecting phenol into the arteries that supply the spinal cord (prevented by checking the needle position with radio-opaque dye ).
The two authors ' accounts of traumatic paraplegia are both quite detailed, although emphasizing different aspects of the condition.
We are using FES assisted cycling to study possible mechanisms of motor and sensory recovery in incomplete paraplegia.