All things are possible if you find the correct scenario. A lower back injury, just as an example, can have long lasting repercussions including sudden and severe reinjury from the slightest of ill timed moments. A neck injury, ditto. Depending on the region of the spine injured the resultant nerve damage can cause anything from numb extrmities to hemi paralysis.
Keeping details very fuzzy for privacy reasons, but someone I know well enough to be privy to their medical history had a MRSA infection inside their spinal column that was not detected until it had eaten through the vertebra. The damaged vertebra basically collapsed on each other and fused during healing. There was a short hospital stay and time in a back brace, but they could walk and function normally, but not without significant pain. Years later they were in a car crash, head on into an immovable object. Their spine broke at the previously damaged area. While the cord was not severed, over the course of multiple complications with healing the damage had lead to them being effectively paralyzed from the waist down.
So, yes, I would believe a story where someone with a previous back injury would later be re-injured in the same location and end up with paralysis.
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So, yes, I would believe a story where someone with a previous back injury would later be re-injured in the same location and end up with paralysis.
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