These run up alongside the trachea to supply the muscles of the larynx or voice box, so if these nerves are compressed, it can cause weak or paralyzed larynx muscles which can cause voice hoarseness.
This rare form of motor neurone disease left him virtually paralyzed, unable to express his profound vision of humanity and science without a voice synthesizer.
I was part of an altercation that led to me being shot multiple times in my abdomen, and result of that, spinal cord injury, paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of my life.