Hyperextension injury of the neck with paraplegia.

An example of paraplegia due to hyperextension of the neck is described in which neurological and post-mortem examination demonstrated the nature and mechanism of the injury. CASE REPORT A man of sixty-three years, suffering from influenza, fainted and struck his forehead Oil a wall. \Vhen he regained consciousness about a minute later, he could not move his limbs aild had 1)araesthesiae and numbness of tile extremities. He was known to have had pain