why do eyes rarely get paralysed?
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Because your eyes are so close to your brain.
with something like your legs you have a lot of room to break the connection between them and the brain.
Your eyes are practically part of your brain. Anything that leaves the eyes themselves alone and also leaves the parts of your brain alone that make you who you are, would only have a very narrow window to disrupt the connection between the two.
Any sort of damage that makes you unable to control your eyes is very likely to either destroy your eyes and or parts of the brain in the process. That would leave you blind, dead or brain damaged in addition to not being able to move your eyes and be the more important bit.
It does happen (google ophthalmoplegia) but is rare and more likely to be the result of an inherited condition than an injury.
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