paralysis

Paralysis

the loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body, typically as a result of illness, poison, or injury.

CAUSES

Paralysis is most often caused by damage in the nervous system, 
especially the spinal cord

Other major causes are

• stroke,
• trauma with nerve injury, 
• poliomyelitis
• cerebral palsy
• peripheral neuropathy
• Parkinson's disease
• spina bifida
• multiple sclerosis
• Guillain–Barré syndrome.