Emily was just 17 when a brain haemorrhage left her paralysed and unable to speak. “We were told that Emily would never be able to stand, walk, initiate movement or conversation,” says her mother, Marie. “Three months into her recovery, we were recommended a place she could go to pass away peacefully.”
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When Jonty went into hospital for routine rotator cuff surgery, he expected to be home very soon afterwards. In fact, he didn’t leave hospital for 84 days as he suffered a spinal stroke during his operation leaving him with three paralysed limbs.
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A split second changed Tony’s life when he collapsed at the top of his stairs and fell down headfirst, breaking his neck. Blue lighted to Royal Stoke Hospital, he underwent a seven-hour operation and was put into an induced coma for three weeks. When he came round, it was to a new reality as a full-time wheelchair user.
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Despite wearing protective gear, a severe break in her neck resulted in damage to her spinal cord, requiring emergency surgery and an extended period in a coma.
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Following a tragic car accident aged 4, Abby, from Israel, was left with a spinal cord injury (SCI) that meant she lost the use of her legs, bladder and bowel function. Her rehab programme at Neurokinex, combined with her positive and tenacious attitude, has seen her defy the odds and regain mobility, independence and the use of her lower body.
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Yasmin was diagnosed with cancer when she was just a few months old. As a result, and at the age of just one, her mother was told that Yasmin had also suffered a spinal cord injury. She was also warned that Yasmin had less than a 5% chance of survival and would be unable to use or feel her body below the waist for the rest of her life.
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Rob defies his paralysis to qualify as a solicitor with Osborne Clarke
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While out playing with her friends, Scarlett was struck by an extremely rare condition that subsequently left her paralysed from the chest down.
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Following a spinal cord injury sustained in a light aircraft crash, Neil, 65, had one goal: to walk independently again. Despite being told by his spinal injury consultant that this would likely never happen.
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Seven-year old Ella from Chichester is one feisty young lady. She has defied the odds since the day she was born at 24 weeks weighing just 650g so when lockdown stopped her weekly rehabilitation sessions, you just knew that she and her parents, Rachel and Emma, would find a way through.
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