In a higher cervical spinal cord injury, almost all of the body's motor function is paralyzed. An patient with such an injury (a male in his 60 s injured in January 2004, injury level C4, complete paralysis) has long been receiving daily training not only by ordinary physiotherapy, but also by passive exercises, including "moving one's arm" and "bending forward". Analysis of a daily physical status log revealed the following effects of that passive exercise training on the physical condition of this patient: 1) the axillary temperature tended to rise, 2) the pulse rate at rest tended to increase, 3) the number of days that psychotropic drugs were taken tended to decrease transiently, 4) the patient became able to defecate without use of a suppository (cathartic), 5) the number of days that the patient described his physical status as "neither well nor poor" tended to increase. This is a singular case, but passive exercise training may have favorable effects on a part of the physical condition of patients with higher cervical spinal cord injury.<br>