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I have no experience with this, (also called spinal cord infarction) but your question made me very curious so I searched around and found the attached writeup helpful and straightforward (i.e. not over my head). http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1164217-overview.
So, paresthesia and paralysis are major concerns which contraindicate mechanical types of massage but this depends on the amount of damage caused by the stroke, was it ischemic or hemorragic, where in the spinal cord the stroke happened and how quickly it was diagnosed and treated (generally not quickly since this is so rare). The writup also mentioned that anticoagulant drugs are usually prescribed which would also contraindicate all but the most gentle massage options.
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