How would an injury that incapacitated the central nervous system affect the peripheral nervous system?

The peripheral nervous system carries sensory information to the central nervous system and carries motor commands from it to muscles and glands. If the central nervous system is incapacitated, it cannot produce those commands, so the peripheral nervous system would have no information to send to the muscles and glands. Sensory signals could still travel toward the central nervous system.

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