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What kind of injury to the spinal cord prevents the use of the legs but not the arms?
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Spine injury level: Your spinal cord is made up of nerve tracts running up and down to and from your brain to the rest of your body. A spinal cord injury at the level of your mid back or lower will not affect the nerves to your arms, which have already left the cord and spinal canal.
Answered 1/11/2016
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