Question: What happens when a person gets paralysed? What do they feel?

Eoin McKinney answered on 6 Nov 2017:

strictly speaking paralysis means not being able to move so feeling could be completely normal (like in motorn neuron disease, for example). Often the ability to feel and move go together, though and are lost together. It depends on which bit of the nervous system is damaged. Much of a neurology examination is focussed on finding what a person can/can’t do in an attempt to work out where the problem is. Different patterns of loss of movement/feeling are very useful for doctors to diagnose patients as a result.