1.   The rise in anal pressure during the manoeuvre was much lower in spinal patients than in controls and varied according to the level of the spinal lesion.

2.   There was no relationship between the level of the spinal lesion and the responses of the internal anal sphincter to rectal distension.

3.   At one point, the spinal lesion rendered her entire left side numb and paralyzed.

4.   When he emerged from the Syrian prison, he was walking on crutches, the result of spinal lesions he attributed to torture.