One woman’s story illustrates how hope, perseverance and innovative engineering can help people with limited mobility get back on their feet
By THIS IS A PREVIEW.or to access the full article.Already a subscriber or purchased this issue?I was 24, and I felt invincible. I taught aerobics. I was a sprinter, a long jumper, the former athletics captain of my school and a ballet dancer. I loved to twirl in space, run on the beach and hike through the wilderness.
All of that changed in a split second. In a freak somersault while downhill skiing, I shattered four vertebrae, along with the illusions of my immortality. An electric current zapped through my legs, and then I lost all movement and sensation below my pelvis. I was paralyzed.
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