The Variants of Paralysis
April 4, 2008 14:29

Paralysis is not exactly a condition that is easy to deal with and most people will cringe at the mere mention of the condition. Yet, while everyone has basically heard of paralysis they are not familiar with how it occurs. On a baseline level, paralysis is the partial or complete loss of muscle function in the human body. There are also varying degrees of paralysis such a paraplegia which is essentially the near complete paralysis of the human body. There is no cure for this condition. Then, there is sleep paralysis which causes total paralysis for a few seconds when a person is halfway between sleeping and waking up. Sleep paralysis lasts on a few seconds and is mostly a benign position.