Footprints in the Snow

Footprints in the Snow is a about a woman who becomes paralysed following a car crash in the UK. Screens 11th September 2005 on ITV Sunday night drama starring Caroline Quentin.

This is an extraordinary story of British scientific achievement. It is also Julie's and her family's personal story of immense courage and humour resulting in medical history. After a car crashresulting from a front tyre blowout in April 1990, Julie Hill broke her back, paralysing her from the waist down.

She volunteered to be the world's first paraplegic to have electrodes implanted into her spine and attached to the nerves in her leg muscles. Thirty years of pioneering research by a professor at Cambridge and his team of bio-medical engineers, nursing staff and electronics experts have resulted in Julie being able to stand, step and even go cycling on a modified tricycle with her children.

Having overcome  the frustration and emotional anguish to make medical history, Julie Hill recounts the journey of how she stood on her own two feet once more, and fulfilled her simple dream of once again creating footprints in the snow.

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