How do people paralysed from the neck down still retain the ability to breathe, pump blood, metabolise food etc., even though their muscles are paralysed?

Question

How do people paralysed from the neck down still retain the ability to breathe, pump blood, metabolise food etc., even though their muscles are paralysed?

In: Biology

Answer 1

it’s simple really , those muscles aren’t paralyzed(completely), that’s as simple as that,
some people do die from complete paralysis though or rather they die from asphyxiation due to them not breathing as a side effect of that paralysis