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On September 4, 1990, at age 11, she was hit by a car while walking home from school, resulting in paralysis from the neck down. Although her injuries left her completely dependent on other people, she graduated from Ward Melville High School in 1996 with high honors, and was accepted to Harvard. [ 2 ]
Bågenholm woke up ten days after the accident, paralyzed from the neck down and subsequently spent two months recovering in an intensive care unit. Although she has made an almost full recovery from the incident, late in 2009 she was still having minor symptoms in hands and feet related to nerve injury .
Ann Adams (1926-1992) was an American artist who, after becoming almost fully paralyzed due to poliomyelitis, re-learned to draw by using a pencil held in her mouth. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Early life
A 32-year-old woman became paralyzed from the neck down after doing the sport she loved — now, her family and friends are doing everything they can to help.
Man walks 1 year after being paralyzed in bicycle crash Owen, who participated in the Up-LIFT study , a clinical trial focusing on the health benefits of ARC-EX Therapy, saw a life-changing impact.
A 24-year-old woman from Wales is raising money for treatment in Oman after she woke up three years ago with a stiff neck and ended up paralyzed, according to the Daily Mail.. In Aug. 2016, Helen ...
The Sessions is a 2012 American drama film written and directed by Ben Lewin.It is based on the 1990 article "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate" by Mark O'Brien, a poet paralyzed from the neck down due to polio, who hired a sex surrogate to lose his virginity.
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