These nerves receive stimuli and send impulses to your spinal cord and brain. Region in your chest where 12 vertebrae and 12 pairs of nerves are located. Region in your hip area where five fused vertebrae called the sacrum and five nerves are located. After an Injury A spinal cord injury can cause permanent paralysis, which is an inability to move a part of your body because of nerve or muscle damage. Paralyzed from the neck down, quadriplegics lose some or all function of their arms or legs.
Paraplegics suffer permanent loss of leg movement and lower-body function.
It's a fact. Once your spinal cord is damaged, it can never be fixed. And once your brain is injured and your brain cells are damaged, they can't be fixed either. It's not like breaking an arm or a leg. Those body parts can heal.