Paraplegia

Following trial, the jury awarded the 45-year-old plaintiff, who was impaled by a steel bar from the scrotum to L2 on his spinal cord, resulting in paraplegia and associated complications, $5 million for past pain and suffering, $10 million for future pain and suffering over 35 years, and $8,295,000 for future medical expenses. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Paralysis of the posterior half of the body is known as paraplegia and results from derangement of the spinal cord. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

The Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund provides much-needed financial assistance to jockeys who have suffered catastrophic injuries such as paraplegia and head injuries while performing their services as jockeys. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He and his family were overjoyed, and Stone explained how important it was to have the independence that a car gives someone with paraplegia. ❋ BA Haller (2008)

Mr. Callahan said he realized his paraplegia was not the problem; his alcoholism was. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Just over 5 percent of federal employees are disabled and less than 1 percent are people with targeted disabilities -- defined as deafness, blindness, mental retardation, dwarfism and paraplegia, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The "rest of what you wrote" it appears, unless you want to clarify, refers again not to the actually REST OF THE POST, learning from each other, not letting the hierarchy imposed upon up dictate our self and view of others but rather the paragraph on SCI and paraplegia. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2009)

He launched a lawsuit, but the insurer argued that his paraplegia was caused by a disease herpes, and that diseases are not accidents. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My position on animal rights and "cures for paraplegia" isn't the issue; I'm not criticising anyone else's position on animal research. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Likewise, I recently re-read a Hulk issue from the paraplegia era where Tony is drowning in self-pity; Bruce rightly tells him off but good. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Through the story of one wounded veteran who becomes a peace activist, you get a glimpse into the US peace movement, the realities of paraplegia and the US government who made it all possible. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When, therefore, the defluxion is copious, and the season winter, it proves fatal; for it chokes up the exhalents, and coagulates the blood if the defluxion be to both sides; but if to either, it merely induces paraplegia. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But when this disease attacks very old people, it therefore proves fatal, or induces paraplegia, because the veins are empty, and the blood scanty, thin, and watery. ❋ Unknown (2007)

According to the World Health Organization, depression is one of the most debilitating of diseases, on a par with paraplegia. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Neal Jimenez did so in his unadorned film "The Waterdance," a tale of paraplegia in a rehab ward. ❋ Joshua Prager (2007)

COLLINS: So we are talking about possible paraplegia or quadriplegia? ❋ Unknown (2007)

In this state of things, during winter, paraplegia set in, and attacked many, and some died speedily; and otherwise the disease prevailed much in an epidemical form, but persons remained free from all other diseases. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Harry- [dans] [nans] a paraplegia because she has no arms or legs LMAO Pierce- Oh [a potato] ❋ Potato Man (2008)

We almost put my cousin in a straight jacket last night because he was so drunk I think he was [afflicted] with Reverse Paraplegia. He was walking around fine but his arms and head were [flapping] all over the place, so we had to [cut him off]. ❋ Alouicious (2010)