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Investigate The Employment Of People With Disabilities  

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[1] Investigate The Employment Of People With Disabilities Physical (mobility) Paralysis, loss of voluntary movement in a part of the human body, caused by disease or injury anywhere along the motor-nerve path from the brain to the muscle fiber. Paralysis may result from injury, poisoning, infection, hemorrhage, occluded blood vessels, or tumors. Occasionally paralysis is due to congenital deficiency in motor-nerve development. Permanent paralysis results from extensive damage to nerve cells or to a nerve trunk; severely damaged nerve cells cannot regenerate. Infections, trauma, or poisons that temporarily suppress motor activity but do not extensively damage nerve cells often cause transient or incomplete paralysis, called paresis. Among well-known paralytic conditions are poliomyelitis (previously known as infantile paralysis), cerebral palsy, and multiple sclerosis. Bell's palsy is a common facial paralysis, generally temporary and produced by such conditions as neuritis or infection. Locomotors ataxia is a paralytic condition caused by infestation of the spinal...

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